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CORRECTION: Kansas City, Mo., Phone Carrier Buys Internet Provider.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 1998 by Sickinger, Ted
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 18--EDITORS: This is a corrected version of a story slugged KC-PHONE moved by KRTB this evening. It fixes the third paragraph to say Lane is company's founder.
Sep. 18--Kansas City's newest telephone carrier, Birch Telecom, said this week that it had purchased Kansas City's oldest Internet service provider, TFSnet Inc.
The marriage of voice and data services -- now a prerequisite for any communications company -- puts another leg under Birch's strategy to become a one-stop communications provider for small businesses in Kansas and Missouri.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But TFSnet, established 11 years ago, is one of the larger Internet service providers in the area, with more than $1...
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