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28th April 2006
The boys are back!UK Internet Pioneers launch Email Hosting Company aimed at Business usersApril 28th 2006, Warrington UK. Three of the pioneers of the UK Internet Industry have teamed up again in a new venture to bring new business email hosting services to the market place. Colin Smith, Bill Unsworth, and Keith Pritchard were the brains behind one of the first UK Internet Service Providers U-NET Limited, which started operations in Warrington in 1994. Now with their new venture SMS (Simply Mail Solutions) they are starting a new operation specialising in email services for business and professional users with SMEÂ's as the main target market.
Commented Chairman Bill Unsworth  For the home user you usually get a free mailservice with your ISP and for the large corporates with IT departments it isfeasible to set up and configure your own mailservers even though they are complexand need continuous maintenance. We are aiming to provide a business standard ofservice for companies and professional users where it is simply not feasible forthem to set up their own mailserversÂ
Commented Colin Smith, Managing Director  Businesses rely so much on email nowadays and they want to access it anytime whether in the office, on the move or even onholiday. Most companies simply cannot make the commitment to putting theirmailservers into the high quality robust environments they need never mind keepingthe servers going. Our servers are in one of the top colocation sites in Manchesterwith excellent Internet connectivity, redundant power etc giving users piece ofmind.Â
Commented Keith Pritchard, Technical Director  Also users are looking for much moreout of their email nowadays  access from portable devices and out of the officegenerally but with the ability to access all of their mailboxes (outbox as well asinboxes) and any attachments. Also shared resources such as calendars and contactslists greatly aid users productivity.Â
The new company is based in Warrington but of course aiming for both UK andinternational custom.
ENDS
Contact for further information and photographs:
Colin Smith E colin@simplymailsolutions.com T 0870 350 3587W www.simplymailsolutions.com
Attachment: Photograph included with this email shows left to right Bill Unsworth,Keith Pritchard, and Colin Smith
Notes to Editors:
U-NET was one of the very first UK ISPÂ's and was the first in the UK to beestablished outside the SE of England. It grew rapidly until sold by the founders in1998.
Bill Unsworth is well known in the industry and initiated and was a founder memberof MANAP the Manchester based Internet Exchange Point where ISPÂ's exchange trafficwhich is an important but invisible part of the infrastructure of the UK Internet.
