Socket Completes Acquisition of Tigernet

July 1, 2004- Socket Internet Services would like to announce the acquisition of TigerNet in St. James, Mo. Approximately 647 dial-up customers, mainly residents from the St. James and Rolla area, were transferred over to Socket’s service.

TigerNet was not a commercial ISP. It was founded by the school district to provide Internet services to the St. James community and schools. Their Web site is at tigernet.missouri.org.

Socket looks forward to working with TigerNet customers. We are fully prepared to handle these customers and have expanded our network accordingly to accommodate the new users.