FASTNET Opens 20th Center

CarrierHotels News Staff

July 31, 2000 -- - Internet service and web hosting provider FASTNET said today it has opened the company's 20th Customer Network Facility in Worcester, Mass.
FASTNET has opened sites in 13 new markets since the beginning of the year and plans to enter seven additional markets by year-end. The additional new markets will give the company a total of 27 operational secondary markets by year-end.
FASTNET is now taking orders for its Internet and colocation services in Worcester, Mass. and actively selling these services in its existing markets.
FASTNET currently operates sites in Allentown, Pa., Harrisburg, Pa., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Basking Ridge, N.J., Jersey City, N.J., Pennsauken, N.J., Phillipsburg, N.J., New Haven, Conn., Stamford, Conn., Cambridge, Mass., Albany, N.Y., Binghamton, N.Y., Rochester, N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., Manchester, N.H., and the secondary markets surrounding Baltimore, Md., Pittsburgh, Pa., Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington D.C.
"`By primarily targeting the small and medium sized enterprises in these selected high-growth secondary markets, we are able to provide our customers with a single-source Internet and data communications solution with responsive local support where it previously might not have been available," said David Van Allen, FASTNET's Chief Executive Officer.
FASTNET is a business Internet service, web hosting and colocation provider based in Bethlehem, Pa.