Santa Barbara, CA, May 20th, 2002 - Impulse Internet Services and FIX Net announced today the completion of their transaction merging operations. The companies both provide Internet services to residences and businesses, with Impulse Internet Services operating primarily in Santa Barbara County, and FIX Net operating primarily in San Luis Obispo County.

The combined company expects to be able to leverage greater buying power and economies of scale to supplement existing network infrastructure, bringing more services, faster speeds, and greater reliability to their existing customers. Among the planned service enhancements:

• Nationwide dial-up access numbers for users who travel or are moving out of the area
• World-class data-center facilities for customers choosing to co-locate their servers
• A fiber-optic network traversing the Central Coast providing higher speeds, enhanced redundancy and greater reliability

"Now that we're past the transactional phase, we plan to focus on service enhancements," said Dave Clark, General Manager of the combined operation. "I believe the companies complement each other extremely well, and we'll be able to leverage our strengths into delivering a greater breadth of services while continuing to improve the quality of service we provide to our local customer base."

Impulse Internet Services provides dial-up and broadband Internet access, email, web hosting and server co-location services to residences and businesses on the Central Coast of California. Impulse Internet Services is a privately held company based in Santa Barbara, California, and on the web at http://www.impulse.net.

FIX Net provides dial-up and broadband Internet access, e-mail, web hosting and server co-location services to residences and businesses on the Central Coast of California. FIX Net is a privately held company based in San Luis Obispo, California on the web at http://www.fix.net.