Rapid Communications was a telecommunications company that provided digital cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone service to rural communities in Alabama, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Oregon.
Its remaining assets were sold to Reach Broadband, LLC and others were sold to Almega Cable, who filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April and all its systems are now shut down.
Many of its former East Texas communities are now served by Alliance Communications Network, an Arkansas-based cable company.
Rapid's Greenford Ohio community is now served by Armstrong Cable Services, a Butler Pennsylvania-based company It is unknown to whom its other cable systems were sold to.
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