This is Atlantic. Net's first acquisition outside Florida and fourth in the past 12 months. Net owns and operates its entire network, which spans more than 70 cities across the Southeastern United States. Managed dial-up services are also available to other Internet service providers. Net's consumer dial-up services run on a Cisco Powered Network.
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Net was founded in 1994 by two University of Florida students, Marty Puranik and Jose Sanchez, who started the company by selling computers. After being denied Internet access through the university in 1995, Puranik and Sanchez launched one of the first commercial Internet services in Gainesville and Ocala, Florida. Net serves more than 40,000 subscribers in seven states. Revenues have doubled every year since inception and in 1999 Atlantic. Net was recognized as Florida's 15th fastest-growing private company.