List of United Kingdom ISPs by age

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The following is a history of UK Internet service providers (ISPs) in order of the date they started trading.

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United Kingdom ISPs by age

  1. 1985-6 GreenNet [1]
  2. 1990 Pipex [2]
  3. 1992-01-28 GEN (Est 1989, ISP in 1992) [3]
  4. 1992-06-01 Demon Internet [4]
  5. 1992 ExNet Initially as 'HelpEx' service [5] [6] [7] [8]
  6. 1993 EUnet GB [9]
  7. 1992 NTL
  8. 1993 Dungeon Network Systems - Rebranded as Flexnet in 1996
  9. 1993 Pavilion [10] (Sold to Easynet from 1 January 2001, but e-mail addresses remain extant under the pavilion.net domain)
  10. 1994-10-13 Zetnet [11] [12]
  11. 1994 Easynet
  12. 1994 U-NET [13]
  13. 1995 Mailbox Internet
  14. 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco)
  15. 1995 Internet Central [14]
  16. 1995 Anglianet
  17. 1995 Power Internet Ltd [15] (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group [16]
  18. 1995 Unipalm-Pipex
  19. 1995 Zen Internet
  20. 1996 Lumison
  21. 1996 Simwood [17]
  22. 1996 Claranet [18]
  23. 1996-11 Entanet
  24. 1997 Force 9
  25. 1998 Larknet
  26. 1998 Freecom
  27. 1998 Elite Limited [19]
  28. 1998 Freeserve

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  14. ↑ "Internet Central | 1000Mb/S Leased Lines | UK Provider". 14 May 2021.
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  17. ↑ https://Simwood.com
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  19. ↑ "About Elite, Elite Limited". Elite Limited. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
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