Online announcement: http://www.iphouse.com/news/pr/2005-05-03.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Minneapolis Internet Service Provider ipHouse Acquires Pro-NS/Professional Network Services MINNEAPOLIS, MN, May 03, 2005 -- ipHouse, the Minneapolis-based Internet Service Provider, announced today that it has acquired another Internet Service Provider -- Pro-NS/Professional Network Services. The acquisition of Pro-NS/Professional Network Services continues the expansion ipHouse began when it acquired GoldenGate Internet and Bitstream Underground last September. Professional Network Services/Pro-NS, headquartered at 1313 Fifth Street, S.E. in Minneapolis, brings to ipHouse more than 2,500 new dial-up, T1 and DSL customers. Bil MacLeslie, chief executive officer of ipHouse, confirmed that customers of Pro-NS will benefit from an enhanced array of connectivity services and new Internet products from ipHouse -- including ipHouse's secure collocation and Web hosting services. "Professional Network Services is a highly-regarded, locally-owned ISP, whose focus on customer service complements ipHouse's own attitude toward what a customer's Internet experience should be," says MacLeslie. "We're delighted to keep this local Internet company local. And we're pleased that Pro-NS customers will become part of the ipHouse family, enjoying the reliability, stability and insane levels of fawning customer service that ipHouse is known for." "The bottom line is that by consolidating Professional Network Services' resources with ipHouse, we can provide better services to all of our customers," says Michael Hastings, CEO of Professional Network Services. "ipHouse offers the same customer support philosophy that we have subscribed to at Pro-NS -- providing knock your socks off service," Hastings noted that ipHouse will also take over Pro-NS' role as the high-speed Ethernet connectivity provider to dozens of businesses located at the three-story University Technology Center (UTEC) building in Dinkytown. Founded in September 2004, ipHouse acquired two other Twin Cities ISPs -- GoldenGate Internet and Bistream Underground -- last year. ipHouse offers Twin Cities homes and businesses dial-up, DSL and other high-speed Internet connectivity, along with colocation, Web hosting and other technology services from its data center/headquarters at 331 Second Avenue, S. in downtown Minneapolis. For more information about high-speed connectivity through ipHouse, call 612-337-6320, or visit http://www.iphouse.com/. Media Contacts: Paul Maccabee/Breanna Wagner, 612-337-0087 -- Mike Horwath [log in to unmask] ipHouse - Welcome home!