In the 1980s, Poptel offered on-line communications and information services to international NGOs, working in particular with the Interdoc group.
[2][3] Working with the National Cooperative Business Association of the US, it launched the successful bid to create a top level Internet domain for use exclusively by co-operatives - ".coop".
Staff from the web development department formed a new co-operative, Poptech (later Fused Technologies).
[5] Poptel was a trading name for Soft Solution Ltd, a worker co-operative founded in 1983.
Poptel's first on-line service, based on the GeoNet platform, was launched in March 1986.