Wikipedia
Clearnet may refer to:
- Clearnet Communications, a mobile telecommunications company that merged with Telus in 2000
- Clearnet (Telus Mobility), a MVNO launched by Telus in 2011
- ClearNET, the UK NHS clearing system (run by McKesson's UK arm)
- Clearnet (networking), non- darknet networks
- Surface Web, non traditional search indexable content
Clearnet (branded in advertising as "Clearne+") was a division of Telus Mobility launched in April 2011 to sell landline and mobile phone bundles in Western Canada. It was a revival of the Clearnet Communications brand name, which originally belonged to an independent cellular provider that was merged into Telus Mobility in 2000. Telus relaunched Clearnet as a discount provider with a "limited market trial" in Kelowna, British Columbia and Red Deer, Alberta.
The company closed to new business in June 2012.
Clearnet is a term typically referring to the unencrypted, or non- darknet, non- Tor internet. This traditional world wide web has relatively low-base anonymity, with most websites routinely identifying users by their IP address.
The term has been used synonymously with the non-traditional search engine indexable surface web due to the historical overlap when darknets were all a part of the deep web.