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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- CONTACT:
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- Brian Fudge
- Online Services Manager
- Portal Communications Company
- E-MAIL: CS@cup.portal.com
- TEL: 408/973-9111
- FAX: 408/725-1580
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- ACCESS:
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- DIAL: 408/725-0561
- SPRINT: C PORTAL
- TYMNET: PORTAL
- PDN: 311040800264
- TELNET: nova.unix.portal.com (login: portal)
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- PORTAL COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY ANNOUNCES
- LOW COST INTERNET ACCESS
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- CUPERTINO, CA (June 29, 1992) --Portal Communications Company announced today
- the addition of a family of new services to its popular Online System. These
- new services allow Portal customers to interact directly with the Internet in
- a number of ways.
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- Portal customers have access to FTP, a protocol for transferring files
- at high speeds over the Internet; Telnet, a program that allows users
- to "log in" to a machine connected to the Internet, and Internet Relay
- Chat, a real-time conferencing system with as many as 700 people
- logged in at once, world-wide.
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- Portal is the only world-wide information system to offer flat-rate
- access to the Internet. For the low monthly price of $13.95, anyone with
- a computer and a modem can become a Portal subscriber. Internet access
- is an additional $5 monthly. Portal can be reached around the
- world via Sprintnet and Tymnet, direct dial, and the Internet with the
- Telnet protocol.
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- Portal is waiving the $5 Internet Services fee during the month of July.
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- In the communications business since 1986, Portal is well-established
- on the networks providing commercial UUCP connections and newsfeeds.
- Portal recently acquired a 5-gigabyte archive, the world's largest. In
- addition, Portal is home to the AmigaZone, over 700 megs of Amiga files and
- the entire Fred Fish disk collection.
-