- Date
- 2002-08-08
- Kind
- Closure
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommercecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Internet Company announced on August 8, 2002, that it was cancelling its planned September service launch. The company cited logistical and provisioning problems and insufficient local support for a late start.
Evidence limits
The article reports the company’s press release, not a corporate filing, market study, or technical postmortem.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2002, “Beaver Island Internet Company pulls back its offering.”Reports BIIC’s cancellation of its planned September launch because of logistical, provisioning, and insufficient local-support concerns, despite its stated goal of locally owned Internet service. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the BIIC press release.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Internet Company cancels its planned September 2002 service launch”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-internet-company-withdrawal-august-8-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2002, “Beaver Island Internet Company pulls back its offering.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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