Name: Beaver Island Internet Project prepares a transition from 24 dial-up lines to GLE and local competition in 2002
Start: 2002-08
End: 2002-09
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 2002-08 – 2002-09
Kind: Announcement
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationcommunitycommercetransportation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Internet Project reported a planned September 2002 transition to GLE, with replacement of its 24 analog dial-up lines by 48 v.90 lines and continued email addresses. GLE also contemplated line-of-sight wireless, while a local Beaver Island Internet Company planned to compete for subscribers.

Evidence limits

The article records proposed service changes and pricing, not final provisioning, uptime, customer counts, or the eventual market outcome.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “What’s New with Beaver Island Internet.”
Reports GLE’s planned September takeover of BIIP dial-up service, replacement of 24 analog lines with 48 v.90 lines, continued @biip.net addresses, possible fall line-of-sight wireless, and a competing local Beaver Island Internet Company. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2002, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the Internet-service report.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Internet Project prepares a transition from 24 dial-up lines to GLE and local competition in 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-internet-project-gle-transition-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “What’s New with Beaver Island Internet.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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