Sherman, TX, Dec 8, 1998 -- Continuing to lead the marketplace in quality of service by increasing diversity and redundancy of its Internet backbone connections, Internet Texoma implemented a hicap connection to Digex, a first-tier national Internet carrier. Digex provides industry-leading solutions designed exclusively for businesses that have Internet requirements tied to critical business objectives.

The Digex hicap port is connected to the Internet Texoma gateway in Sherman, TX to accommodate customer growth. You may read about IT's latest strategic partner for connectivity at www.digex.net.

Digex also provides Internet connectivity to swbell.net.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16, 1998 (Reuters) -- The House Commerce Committee said Friday it had opened an investigation into the Clinton administration's drive to privatize the Internet's name and address system, following complaints that reform plans were drafted behind closed doors without public input.

Committee chairman Thomas Bliley, Republican of Virginia, sent letters on Thursday to Clinton's top Internet policy advisor Ira Magaziner and Secretary of Commerce William Daley criticizing the reform process and demanding communications and records related to recent proposals, the committee said.

Washington, DC Oct 13, 1998 -- Congressman Ralph Hall has expressed his concern to the Clinton administration regarding the process by which the United States Government is preparing to transfer its governing functions of the Internet to a private entity. See letter 1 and letter 2. Internet Texoma subscribers may find this backgrounder a good way to become informed about what is happening.

McKinney, TX Aug 24, 1998 -- Continuing to lead the marketplace in quality of service by increasing diversity and redundancy of its Internet backbone connections, Internet Texoma implemented a hicap connection to Southwest Securities Group, Inc. (SWS-NYSE), a major investment banking and financial services firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company and its subsidiaries are engaged in various aspects of the securities business. The company's subsidiaries provide execution, clearing, brokerage, and investment banking and management services to clients in the Southwest and throughout the nation.

The SWST/TELETEAM hicap port is connected to the Internet Texoma gateway in McKinney, where a Cisco 3640 was recently installed to accommodate customer growth. You may read about IT's latest strategic partner for connectivity at www.swst.com.

Sherman, TX Aug 21, 1998 -- As of this morning at 05:15, all Internet Texoma access pops save Denison were upgraded with firmware supplied by Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs) and now fully support the interim V.90 specification, including both the 1 megabyte and 2 megabyte versions of the Rockwell chipset. The Denison pop remains equipped with USR Total Control equipment for support of the older V.32 and V.34 (up to 33.6Kbps) protocols.

Several modem manufacturers now have test facilities you can call to determine if a problem you are experiencing is with your telephone line. For a list of the phone numbers, contact Internet Texoma's support@texoma.net team.

Dallas, TX Aug 12, 1998 -- Chalk one up for the little guy. "Jay Jay the Jet Plane," a home-grown, sweet-spirited children's video series has made it to the majors. Jay Jay will be broadcast into 65 million homes by The Learning Channel when a new series featuring the perky airplane premieres on Monday, November 2nd. The 26 half-hour shows currently in production will air Monday thru Friday at 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM EST -- that's 10 times per week!. Your kids will enjoy visiting www.jayjay.com, hosted at Internet Texoma since its inception in 1996. You may also purchase the original videos at the web site.

Sherman, TX, June 24, 1998 -- Lucent Technologies RABU released a 2nd open beta yesterday. The claimed benefits are that 1) V.90 interoperability is improved and 2) V.34 support is improved. The new beta code was installed in all of Internet Texoma's Lucent Technologies Access Servers at 03:00.

We are still awaiting V.90 support for modems based on the Rockwell chip set.

Several modem manufacturers now have test facilities you can call to determine if a problem you are experiencing is with your telephone line. For a list of the phone numbers, contact Internet Texoma's support@texoma.net team.

Sherman, TX, June 21, 1998 -- Internet Texoma announces a new feature, MailMan. MailMan is a web-based application which allows the user to send and receive Internet email from any Internet-connected web browser. MailMan does not remove messages from POP3 mailboxes unless you explicitly delete them, so MailMan is an ideal method of keeping up with Internet email correspondence while you are away from your home or office without the hassle of configuring a mail client program on a strange computer. Simply gain access to any web browser and point it to mailman.texoma.net. You can use almost any web browser with MailMan, your friend's copy of Netscape, the Pocket Internet Explorer on a Windows CE handheld, your grandmother's WebTV box, an Internet-capable pay phone at the airport, anything. MailMan is operational but still under development and testing. Please email the support@texoma.net team with any comments.

Reston, Virginia, June 10, 1998 -- Internet Texoma, Inc. accepts invitation to participate in the first constitutional convention of the Internet, the Global Incorporation Alliance Workshop to be held in Reston Jul 1-2. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the various diverse stakeholder groups and experts in corporate law and trusts to: 1) identify and articulate the parties, issues, and views, and 2) prepare a model, set of common principles, structure and general charter provisions for the formation of an Internet Assigned Numbers Corporation or Trust - hereafter called The Entity.

You can learn more about the process by visiting GIAW's web site.

Birmingham, England, May 20, 1998 -- An IT subscriber who frequently travels abroad on business indicated he regularly obtains 40K+ connections using his K56Flex modem when calling IT from Birmingham.

Sherman, TX, May 1, 1998 -- Internet Texoma, Inc. introduces simplified pricing plan with price protection, Senior Citizen and Educator Rates, grace period of seven(7) days, uniform requirement for account prepayment.

Sherman, TX, April 30, 1998 -- Internet Texoma, Inc. invites you to participate in a market test to influence and set the rules for Internet marketing. You can participate in the test by visiting the USER web site and register for quality offerings from legitimate marketers. An example is a FREE pager and 9 cent/minute long distance from Touch 1 Communications, Inc.

Sherman, TX, April 23, 1998 -- Internet Texoma, Inc. today announced V.90 Support between and along I35 and US75 from Dallas to the Red River.

V.90 is now supported for Lucent and 3Com/USR chipset customer modems. V.90 with Rockwell chipset customer modems is not supported at this time. K56flex is still supported.

In V.90, your modem is responsible for measuring the quality of the cable between your business/residence and the telco central office serving you; your modem conducts these tests in conjunction with the digital central site equipment at Internet Texoma, arranging for optimal transmission parameters. In no case can the modems agree to use "silk purse" parameters if your local cable is of "sow's ear" quality `[8-:(

Please refer your requests for improvement of your local telephone cable to your local telephone company and/or to the Texas Public Utilities Commission.

We'd like to hear about your V.90 experiences; send email to V.90@texoma.net.

Try us free for two weeks and see the benefits of our V.90 and ISDN digital access servers, personalized service and state-of-the-art reliability. A subscription is only $19.95/month; a Senior Citizen plan offers up to 30 hours per month for only $9.95/month.

IT toughens SPAM policy and makes parental responsibility easier with software which automatically blocks or screens material on the Internet.

Internet Texoma subscribers are running well ahead of the national projected ISDN usage for the year 2000. Subscriptions for ISDN are as low as $24.95 per month.

IT customers can download a new customized browser to replace Trumpet Winsock or upgrade Windows 95.

On a typical day, IT hosts visitors from over 50 countries! Which countries visit Texoma and what do they take home?

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