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Earthlink
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Type |
Public |
Founded |
1994 |
Location |
Atlanta, Georgia |
Key people |
Garry Betty, Kevin M Dotts |
Industry |
Internet & Communications |
Products |
ISP |
Revenue |
$1.4 billion USD (2004) |
Employees |
2000 (709 IT) |
Website |
www.earthlink.com |
EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the major Internet service providers in the United States, with 5.4 million members (2004 estimate).
It was founded in 1994 by Sky Dayton. From a modest beginning of ten modems, the company has grown to include earthlink total access mailbox over 2,000 POP numbers in the US-and over 40 internationally.
On February 4, 2000, the company (then based in Pasadena, California) merged with Atlanta-founded MindSpring, making them the second-largest ISP in the U.S.-second only to AOL.
EarthLink provides a variety of Internet connection types, including DSL, satellite, and cable. It is one of where is earthlink total access address book file the industry leaders in the crusade to rid the world of spam as well as spyware. EarthLink takes an almost laid-back approch to the Internet, allowing its users as much freedom and personal configuration as possible. Although it does provide its users with its own software (TotalAccess), it doesn't require its use (unlike AOL). The support section of the EarthLink website has detailed instructions for configuring Windows and Mac OS to access their network, either with the EarthLink software or with the earthlink total access sign on standard networking features that come with those operating systems. earthlink total access scheduled scan They also give directions for configuring a number of popular email client software to use their servers. They don't list Linux on their support pages, but since they operate entirely via standard Internet protocols, any experienced Linux user can easily translate the standard settings for either Windows or Mac OS to the needed Linux settings.
In addition to selling their various Internet connections online and by phone, EarthLink operates retail kiosks in all Fry's Electronics stores. Two to five EarthLink representatives man the kiosks, and are directly employed by EarthLink rather than Fry's. For signing up in-store, EarthLink offers customers special promotions not available elsewhere (including cash back and extended discounts). Services sold at the kiosks include PeoplePC dial-up, PeoplePC Accelerated dial-up, EarthLink Accelerated dial-up, EarthLink earthlink total access and access number High Speed (including Cable, DSL, and Satellite), and EarthLink Wireless's AirCard, which provides Internet service over digital cellular signals across the United States. Earthlink provides the earthlink total access rate large majority of its users with free anti-virus software (Win 2000 & XP only).
On June 10, 2002, EarthLink acquired PeoplePC. PeoplePC is a value priced dial-up service, and has more dial-up access numbers than any other ISP (including AOL). Its direct competitors are NetZero and Netscape.
In July 2005, Earthlink announced that they were closing the last of their in-house American call centers. They still continue to have American earthlink total access runtime error call centers via out-source telecom companies.
SIPshare
EarthLink SIPshare is a Session Initiation Protocol based file sharing network. It was made by Clay Shirky and David Beckemeyer.
External links
- EarthLink.net
- History of EarthLink
- EarthLink SIPshare
- EarthLink and Scientology
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