List of United Kingdom ISPs by age

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

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 Bogomip^[11]
11. 1994-10-13 Zetnet^[12][13]
12. 1994 Easynet
13. 1994 U-NET^[14]
14. 1995 Mailbox Internet
15. 1995 Netdirect (NDO, now part of Namesco)
16. 1995 Internet Central^[15]
17. 1995 Anglianet
18. 1995 Power Internet Ltd^[16] (Powernet), now part of the Timico Technology Group^[17]
19. 1995 Unipalm-Pipex
20. 1995 Zen Internet
21. 1996 Direct Connection^[18]
22. 1996 Metronet^[11]
23. 1996 Lumison
24. 1996 Simwood^[19]
25. 1996 Claranet^[20]
26. 1996-11 Entanet
27. 1997 Force 9
28. 1998 Larknet
29. 1998 Freecom
30. 1998 Elite Limited^[21]
31. 1998 Freeserve

See also

• Internet in the United Kingdom
• List of broadband providers in the United Kingdom