USNet
USNet (“The Internet for US!”) is an Internet company that made the transition from ISP (Internet service provider) in the dial-up era to Web-based giant on the strength of its ConText search engine and associated NetWork online apps. The main USNet offices are located in a multi-level brick and glass office complex in Hanover . Cutting edge research attracts plenty of student interns and graduates from the Hanover Institute of Technology.
Emerald City's leading Internet service provider is USNet, “the online company for US,” thanks in no small part to an aggressive marketing strategy few other major ISP’s can match. It offers online services and Internet access to millions of customers, having poured millions of dollars into improving their extensive network of servers across the country, smoothing out many prior complaints about the reliability of the company’s online services. USNet offers web-page hosting as part of its standard membership package, making it a booming business among the many start-up high-tech companies in Emerald.
Structure
The young CEO of USNet is still a computer geek at heart. In his late 30s, Scott Hamilton wears polo shirts and blue jeans to work. Of average height with sandy colored hair and blue eyes, Scott wears gold-rimmed glasses. He likes nothing more than to talk about computers and his company. He gets very energetic while discussing plans for the future of USNet and what he sees as the most exciting business field in the world. He still spends a considerable amount of his free time surfing the Internet. Hamilton is unmarried and a bit shy around attractive women, despite his usual confidence.
History
The company is the brainchild of entrepreneur Scott K. Hamilton, who believed early on that the Internet will eventually encompass all forms of communication and media. He has therefore positioned his company to be one of the primary providers of those multimedia services.
The company has of late put money into virtual reality research, promising to provide multi-sensory virtual environments. Such services are still in the experimental stage, but work is progressing and already attracting the unsavory attentions of parties such as Brande Management.
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