1991 headquarters pittsburgh key people doug luce founder president and ceo products isp website www.telerama.com for the french magazine see t l rama telerama was an internet service provider and technology company based in pittsburgh pennsylvania . it was founded in 1991 and promoted itself as the third isp in world history . 1 telerama launched its wi fi network in pittsburgh in 2001 comprising over 200 nodes . it concentrated access mainly in coffee house style arrangements . in 2003 telerama s wi fi network started appearing at sites in the cultural district pittsburgh . 2 in 2004 it started lighting up large buildings in downtown pittsburgh . 3 telerama s stated approach to municipal wi fi access was somewhat unique . eschewing the typical mu fi concept of blanketing every square inch of a town area with signal telerama instead concentrated on specific locations like coffee houses and apartments . locations were usually serviced by a high speed dsl line a linux based site router and a handful of wifi antennas arranged to service seating areas of a location . closing edit in april 2008 telerama took its web site and associated email system off line . on april 4 telerama founder doug luce stated we re actually in negotiations now to move service over to another local isp . if that works out we will actually be going out of business . 4 on april 21 2008 its ip space began to be announced by aspstation inc. as of april 22 2008 the telerama nameservers and website are once again available . 5 references edit telerama internet entry on bioportfolio.com telerama unwires cultural district one oxford centre becomes largest public wi fi location downtown isp provider telerama closes telerama customers should get internet restored soon v t e pittsburgh corporations within the pittsburgh metro area fortune 500 headquarters u.s. steel pnc financial services ppg industries kraft heinz mylan wesco international consol energy dick s sporting goods allegheny technologies forbes largest private companies headquarters 84 lumber giant eagle other corporation headquarters american bridge american eagle outfitters ampco pittsburgh ansys armstrong communications atlas america bruster s ice cream calgon carbon chemadvisor college prowler compunetix dollar bank dqe energy eat n park edmc eqt energy federated investors gnc guru.com highmark h. laughlin china igate ii vi incorporated iron city brewing company kennametal koppers marc usa millcraft industries mine safety appliances niche.com oxford development ptc alliance rue21 university of pittsburgh medical center vocelli pizza wabtec companies with split headquarters alcoa modcloth nova chemicals subsidiary company headquarters allegheny energy bayer usa fedex ground glaxosmithkline usa lanxess respironics vivisimo westinghouse electric company outside companies with strong pittsburgh relations bny mellon formerly mellon financial dreyfus corporation eaton corporation spreadshirt macy s list of corporations in pittsburgh retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title telerama & oldid 743628095 categories companies based in pittsburghinternet companies of the united statesinternet service providers of the united statescompanies established in 19911991 establishments in pennsylvania navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 13 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view