salt lake city utah u.s. october 1993 founder pete ashdown headquarters salt lake city utah u.s. number of locations 1 office 1 data center december 2007 area served worldwide key people pete ashdown founder president services internet access data center web hosting service email hosting virtual private server hosted pbx owner pete ashdown jan ashdown number of employees 44 december 2007 website xmission.com xmission is the first and is one of the few remaining independent internet service providers isp in utah united states founded in late 1993 by pete ashdown . 1 2 starting in 2003 the company began providing free wireless internet in public libraries and some local businesses . by the summer of 2005 xmission worked out an agreement with salt lake city government to expand free wireless to many parts of downtown salt lake city utah . 3 4 5 xmission also provides streaming support for radio stations including npr affiliate kcpw fm and independent radio station krcl . xmission also provides free accounts to hundreds of non profit organizations and sponsors many events including the utah open source conference 6 the living planet aquarium the living traditions festival the utah arts festival and the twilight concert series . 7 xmission has a policy of refusing requests by government agencies to monitor its customers without a warrant . 8 9 10 the company announced in late 2007 that it would be upgrading to 100 % renewable energy provided by rocky mountain power s blue sky program . 7 this move makes the company the first isp in utah to use entirely environmentally friendly power . 11 12 references edit can techie oust orrin hatch . wired . 2006 05 01 . archived from the original on april 22 2008 . press xmission internet archived november 23 2007 at the wayback machine . deseret morning news main street is going wireless downtown developments salt lake city new west network archived may 3 2007 at the wayback machine . wifi on main street archived november 20 2005 at the wayback machine . utah open source . sponsor list . archived from the original on december 1 2009 . retrieved 2009 12 01 . a b broadband and web hosting service provider xmission converts to total renewable energy tiny utah based isp makes a name for itself by rebuffing government snoops ; meet xmission the internet service provider embracing transparency as it shields customers from warrantless authorities rory carroll in salt lake city guardian.co.uk 9 july 2013 what is that box when the nsa shows up at your internet company for nine months this utah isp had a little black box in the corner courtesy of the nsa . its owner tells his story . justine sharrock buzzfeed july 19 2013 when the nsa shows up at your internet company posted by samzenpus july 21 2013 from the when the man comes around dept. th nw web host xmission goes green tophosts.com north american windpower content fyi xmission converts to 100 % renewable energy see also edit the best page in the universe a popular site hosted on xmission s servers . external links edit xmission website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title xmission & oldid 738693300 categories internet service providers of the united statescompanies established in 1993companies based in utah1993 establishments in utahhidden categories articles with wayback machine links 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 september 2016 at 14 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