COLORADONET CONNECTS TO THE STATE OF COLORADO'S HIGH SPEED DIGITAL NETWORK

(May 22, 2003) Local Internet Service Provider ColoradoNet announced today that it is now providing qualified Summit County Government and Non-Profit organizations with direct access to the State of Colorado’s high speed digital network using ColoradoNet’s local high speed network infrastructure.

The State of Colorado Multi-Use Network (MNT) is a public/private partnership to build a high-speed fiber-optic network linking rural and urban Colorado. Earlier this week, ColoradoNet announced plans to complete a fiber optics network infrastructure upgrade in June. This upgrade will provide a “local backbone” connecting Dillon, Silverthorne, Frisco and Breckenridge with fiber optics capable of transporting data at initial speeds of up to 100Mb per second between these locations. ColoradoNet’s existing wireless and DSL hardware will use this secure and reliable fiber infrastructure to transfer data at speeds between 256K and 10Mb per second between qualified locations.

“Several of our existing high speed customers in Summit County approached us about using our network infrastructure and technical support to connect to the State of Colorado’s new MNT network” said ColoradoNet’s vice president of Internet Services, John Uhley. “We worked with the State to build a high speed connection directly to their network. This network connection was completed last week and we have already connected both Lake Dillon Fire and Rescue as well as the Dillon Marina directly to the State.”

"We have been very pleased with ColoradoNet as our ISP and are glad that we are able to stay with them as our provider," said Carlina Duggan of the Lake Dillon Fire District. Although other solutions have been proposed to us, ColoradoNet was able to get us online with the State Multi-Use Network this week. In a governmental setting, I particularly like the security and stability of a wired network. After much research, I found our current setup to be the most reliable and cost effective olution for us."

“The Dillon Marina switched over to the MNT network using ColoradoNet’s DSL service on Monday, May 19th” said Marina Manager Bob Evans. “The few minor glitches we encountered during the installation process were quickly overcome by the excellent troubleshooting and support provided to us by the ColoradoNet team. Our connection through ColoradoNet to the MNT network is just one of many initiatives underway to keep the Marina on the leading edge of technology. We believe that this new connectivity will add a new dimension to the Marina’s marketing strategy, providing increased media and public exposure to the Marina, the Town of Dillon and Summit County.”

“The MNT was developed to improve economic development opportunities throughout Colorado and in doing so has promoted private sector investments in the build-out to connect rural areas of the state to the MNT backbone,” said Guy Mellor, MNT program manager. “ColoradoNet’s investment in local fiber, DSL and high speed infrastructure in Summit County truly exemplifies these efforts and affords all Colorado citizens an equal opportunity to participate in the new economy.”

“Any state or local government or non-profit organization in Summit County that qualifies to be part of the MNT network can connect to MNT though ColoradoNet” said ColoradoNet’s Director of Sales Scott Martin. “Existing ColoradoNet wireless and DSL customers who qualify for MNT connectivity can usually be switched over to the State network in a day or two. New qualified customers not already on our network are usually looking at about a week lead time to be up and running.”

Monthly service charges, including telephone charges for the connection, begin as low as $69.95/month.

Interested parties should contact Scott Martin at (970) 453-1615 or via sales@colorado.net for more information.

VAILNET EXPANDS SUMMIT COUNTY NETWORK

(May 19, 2003) Local Internet Service Provider ColoradoNet is pleased to announce upgrades to our Summit County network infrastructure that will significantly boost DSL and wireless Internet access speeds for ColoradoNet subscribers. Scheduled for completion in June, the upgrade utilizes fiber optics to provide data transfer rates of up to 100Mb per second between ColoradoNet's equipment in Dillon, Silverthorne, Frisco and Breckenridge.

"It's like going from a three or four lane highway to a one hundred lane highway" said John Uhley, vice president of Internet services for ColoradoNet. "With the substantial growth of our high-speed DSL and wireless subscriber base in Summit County we wanted to make sure that we had a large enough "backbone" to sustain our subscribers growing connectivity and Internet needs."

Because each DSL and wireless subscriber has such a large "pipe" to the Internet, it is important that the central network infrastructure connecting regional DSL and wireless electronics to the main Internet feed be extremely large and extraordinarily fast. This upgrade assures that ColoradoNet DSL and wireless subscribers will be able to access the Internet as fast as possible without "bumping into one another" getting to or from our Internet gateway.

"ColoradoNet can deliver speeds between 256K and 10Mb/second between qualified subscriber locations in Summit County and our high-speed backbone today", said ColoradoNet's Director of Sales Scott Martin. This represents speeds of between 5 to 182 times faster than the maximum connection speed that can be obtained via traditional dialup modem connections.

While the County has always had telephone infrastructure capable of transporting high-speed data traffic, it has lacked the necessary electronics to use this existing infrastructure to deliver low-cost high-speed connections to consumers. Over the last few years ColoradoNet has deployed the necessary technology to solve this problem. Currently, residential subscribers pay as little as $49.95/month to connect all of the computers in their house to the Internet through a ColoradoNet DSL connection.

The upgrade also expands ColoradoNet's local product offering by providing local businesses with a low cost means of connecting two or more locations in Summit County at very high-speeds. For example, a business with qualified office locations in both Dillon and Breckenridge could use ColoradoNet's enhanced network to link their two offices together at speeds of around 10Mb/second. This would only cost slightly more than a traditional T1 circuit between these two offices that would only provide about 1/6th of the speed that ColoradoNet's network would deliver.

For more information about obtaining network connectivity from ColoradoNet, contact Scott Martin at (970) 453-1615 or email sales@colorado.net

ABOUT COLORADONET:

ColoradoNet is the largest and oldest Internet service provider in Eagle and Summit Counties. Over the last ten years ColoradoNet has focused on providing residents and businesses in these rural mountain communities with high quality and high-speed Internet service. Voted the best ISP by the readers of the Summit Daily News in 2002, ColoradoNet continues to provide dialup and high-speed network connectivity to over eight thousand local Colorado businesses and residents, helping to enhance, encourage and leverage their use of Internet and network technology for both personal and business use. More information about ColoradoNet can be found at http://isp.colorado.net , by emailing sales@colorado.net or by calling (970) 453-1615.