Loud-n-Clear was formed in 1995 as a co-operative venture between Loud-n-Bow and Bytesmith - two companies with a successful range of software products and an in-depth knowledge of databases, development systems and high volume transaction processing.

Armed with this experience we set out to explore the possibilities of the Internet, specifically in the areas of distributed working and the predicted merger between active web systems and databases. We were the first fully virtual company in the UK - at least according to The Times - and have supported teleworking and teleworkers ever since as sponsors and hosts of the European Telework Organisation (ETO) website.

The result is a company which has "been there, done that" on other platforms and now knows how to apply hundreds of man years of experience in database and transaction based systems to the Internet and active web systems. Some of our customers are amongst the most advanced users of active web technology in the world, while others have developed simple systems of huge power by using our off-the-shelf components and interactive site maintainence tools.

Loud-n-Clear.com, our sister company, was formed in 1998 as a company specialising in e-commerce shopping systems. This allowed Loud-n-clear.net to concentrate on e-business, bespoke solutions and advanced database applications. Loud-n-Clear.net provides the infrastructure which supports Loud-n-Clear.com, and a growing number of niche development companies who prefer not to run their own network and server infrastructure.

As our base has grown we became irritated with the quality of services provided by other ISPs and found that we were providing more and more of our own facilities, so much so that we decided we could make these available to others to leverage our investment in infrastructure. We now provide all of our own services except for some dialup connections. We also build our own hardware and can supply server systems as part of our co-location packages.