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Updated Feb 7, 2002

Feb. 7, 2002

New tower sites available in Kingsport, Viking Mountain, English Mountain, and Halls Top. New towers have been recently added to the Locations section of our web site. Check in your area to see if we now reach your location. 

Oct. 27, 2001

NEW COVERAGE AREA IN MARYVILLE:

Wireless Internet service is now available in the downtown Maryville area. The tower is located at Fine Communications. It covers most of the area inside the city limits.

Oct. 9, 2001

NEW T-3 BACKBONE NOW OPERATING BETWEEN KNOXVILLE AND OUR ENGLISH MOUNTAIN AND BLUFF MOUNTAIN HUBS:

To provide our wireless Internet subscribers with a very fast connection, Planet Connect Internet has recently installed a wireless T-3 backbone between downtown Knoxville and English Mountain. Special high-speed microwave radios are used to provide a 45 million bit per second link between each hub location. The link starts in downtown Knoxville at the MCI-Worldcom building. This is where our T-3 Internet fiber optic connection  from Atlanta is terminated. The circuit then goes to Bluff  mountain in Sevier county and then ends up at our English mountain hub in Cocke county.

This new circuit provides up to 45 million bits per second which is over 30 times more bandwidth than is used by most local Internet providers. As the number of wireless subscribers grows, this new backbone will supply an ample amount of data to their networks and computers.

Oct. 1, 2001

HALLS TOP TOWER SITE COMING SOON.

Many people have asked about high-speed wireless service in the Cosby, Golf Course, and other areas of Cocke County. We have arranged to use the tower owned by the railroad company that is located on Halls Top. We expect to get the tower working for our signals during the month of November. If  you are interesting in using this location, please contact our office to be added to our waiting list.