Rainier Connect Acquires HarborNet
Rainier Connect, our neighbors on the north side of downtown Tacoma, announced today that they have acquired local Internet Service Provider HarborNet.
Rainier Connect will transition HarborNet customer accounts and services to Rainier Connect’s system and customers won’t see a change to their current services or email addresses. Walk-in customers will be helped at 805 Pacific Avenue in Tacoma until Rainier Connect’s permanent headquarters are renovated at 2516 South Holgate in Tacoma’s Brewery District.
So lets see…. they are getting a new HQ, they are going to be partnering with Click! to expand service, and are now absorbing local competitors? It would seem that this local, family-owned company is successfully taking over the Tacoma ISP territory.
Link to the Tacoma Daily Index
Filed under: Neighborhoods, Brewery District
6 comments
N NorthEndJustin August 21, 2008
It looks like Rainier Connect is a couple bucks more a month for service. Hopefully their service is as good or better than Harbornet. I’ve been with Harbornet for several years and have rarely had any issues.
C Chris August 22, 2008
Harbornet’s been great for me. I work on Pacific close to Rainier Connect. Small office. They must really be expanding if they’re buying up other local ISPs.
Kind of like Dracula buying up property around London. LOL
M Mr.Sniggles August 22, 2008
I hope they don’t force all the newly acquired Harbornet employees to earn to break-dance like the rest of their employees had to when they upgraded to “break-neck speed.”
R RR Anderson August 22, 2008
harbornet’s online billing system blew. hopeing Raineer Conkectz can get their acts together.
N NorthEndJustin August 22, 2008
I never really had a problem with the billing system. What kind of problems did you have?
R RR Anderson August 22, 2008
you know how they’d email you a pdf… you’d have to copy/paste your account number, invoice number… blood type… astrological sign.. to submit a payment. complicating things further they’d label things differently in the PDF than in the html payment form! Is my User ID the same as Account Number? Usability Issue!
why can you just log in and enter a CC number? Am I living in 1997 ?