Planet Online was a British business-to-business Internet service provider. Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995.
History
Managed from a purpose-built NOC in Leeds, Planet's network was first switched on in October 1995 with over 2,000 businesses connected by the end of the following year.[1] The office in Leeds was shared with hardware specialist and sister company ESS, with the two formally merging on 1 January 1997.[2] The merged company retained the Planet Online name.
Planet was sold to Energis in August 1998 for £85m[3][4] at a time when it carried around 40% of all