TWICS

TWICS

TWICS (Two Way Information Communication System) was a Japanese network company. It was started up in 1982 as a part of the non-profit International Education Center in Tokyo.

In 1993 it became the first organization in Japan to offer public access Internet services by leasing a line from a US-owned company called InterCon International KK (a subsidiary of TCP/IP software maker, InterCon Systems Corporation). This achievement made them a target of intense rivalry from older more established companies who had already spent a year unsuccessfully trying to obtain licenses to provide similar services.

In 2003, TWICS was taken over by Inter.net Global Inc.

External links

* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.02/wiring.japan.html Wiring Japan] The controversial start-up of Internet services in Japan
* [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http%3A//www.twics.com/ TWICS.com] at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine


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