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LightNet adds wireless service

Advertiser Staff

Honolulu-based Pacific LightNet Communications yesterday introduced a wireless broadband Internet access service in downtown Kailua, Kona, and the Kaloko Business Park. The service is available up to 15 miles from those wireless access points for $19.95 for the first three months and $39.95 thereafter. That promotional offer is good through August and excludes a $300 site assessment and equipment installation cost. A two-year service contract is required.

The company said it plans to rollout the service along the Saddle Road and in Hilo and upgrade service in the Kohala and Kawaihae areas.

Group buys 50% in power plant

New York-based Energy Investors Funds Group said its US Power Fund, L.P. has bought the remaining 50 percent ownership in Hamakua Energy Partners from TECO Energy for $12 million. Big Island-based Hamakua Energy Partners is a naphtha-fueled 60-megawatt power plant.