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OARnet Announces 56/64Kbps Leased Line Service Nationally

	November 1, 1993 (Columbus, OH) OARnet, through an agreement with 
LCI International, is pleased to announce the availability of 56/64Kbps 
connections to the Internet throughout the U.S.  Clients connect with a 56Kbps
local loop to the nearest LCI Frame Plus Point-to-Presence (POP)
to access the OARnet frame relay backbone. LCI  has 372
POPs located in major cities, with concentrations in the upper
Midwest, western Pennsylvania and New York, Florida, and the 
Washington, D.C. area.  OARnet, an Internet service provider since
1988, is located in Columbus Ohio.  OARnet has been marketing commercial
connections to the Internet in Ohio and surrounding states since 1991.
LCI International Inc. is a publicly-held, worldwide, facilities-based
telecommunications company that provides to its business and residential
customers a full array of voice, data and video transmission services
through its fiber optic network.

"We plan to continue to concentrate on Ohio", said Alison 
Brown, the Director of OARnet, "but because of the really cost-effective 
frame relay services from LCI, we can offer our corporate and academic
clients in Ohio the ability to connect other parts of their company
and/or their university directly to OARnet, giving them a single
service provider for their whole organization. Of course, we expect
that this service will also bring us new clients, particularly 
where LCI has a strong presence", she added. 

OARnet has been connecting clients outside Ohio for several
months using LCI private line services, although no formal announcement
of national availability has been made.  Universities in Ohio with
connections to OARnet and campuses outside the state have expressed
interest in using OARnet to connect all branch campuses
to the Internet, effectively using the Internet to provide
an extended campus network for their entire institution.  With the new
frame relay service, this has become an even more attractive option. 
A number of OARnet corporate clients have a similar need to connect
several parts of their business to a single service provider.
In addition, OARnet has already done some partnering with other Internet
service providers to connect clients outside Ohio using LCI facilities. 

Several service levels are available at different committed service rates on 
the OARnet frame relay backbone. Prices start at $10,500 per year . For more
information about this service please call (614)292-8100 or send
electronic mail to info@oar.net.