TelephoNET

TelephoNET Corp (TNET) serves business by pursuing trusted partnerships with its clients. Our purpose is to assist clients with challenges presented by the complexities of converging voice and Internet technologies in their businesses. TelephoNET offers turn-key solutions and perpetual management services while you maintain control and ownership of your communications assets. TelephoNET was formed in 1996 to create innovative Internet solutions for business. TelephoNET co-founders; Greg Ottensmeyer and David Wielech developed and filed for US Patent office protection for the first competitive integrated T1 (voice and Internet) service, dubbed - CLEAR CHANNEL. TODAY - TelephoNET provides and manages world-class IP telephony systems and services for corporate clients globally. Our success is based on satisfied customers who tell others. CLEAR CHANNEL service was conceived by TelephoNET in 1996 to deliver low-cost Internet and Voice services on a single T1 pipe for business. By collocating equipment in TCG's central office, TelephoNET sold the blended service for $265 when Internet T1's cost over $1,200 monthly. TCG began offering the service as their own and were subsequently purchased by AT&T in 1998 for $11B. HISTORY - In the mid-1970s, Greg Ottensmeyer, TelephoNET founder pioneered the first competitive flat rate long distance service when he began offering unlimited calls for 25-cents, while the Bell telephone monopoly charged 43 cents per-minute. In 1979, AT&T "Ma Bell" moved to shut-down the burgeoning telephone competitor. Ottensmeyer's attorneys filed Anti-trust charges against AT&T for restraint of competitive trade violations. The Case was litigated for 5-years, when it was joined by parallel US Justice Department actions, which culminated in the 1984 break-up of Bell System and AT&T's century-long monopoly over American telephone services.