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Allegedly one of the fasting growing Internet service providers in Australia, and with a title that sends up the larger brand iiNet, aaNet if currently owned by Eftel and offers ADSL broadband and ADSL2+.
Internet Services aaNet offer relatively few plans for standard ADSL broadband, when compared with other Australian ISPs. Of
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Introduction
The rather plainly titled Adam Internet started in Adelaide, South Australia in 1992. They’re an ISP offering broadband, dialup, web hosting, voice over IP and various other services.
Internet Services
At the speed of 512 cobs download and 128 cobs upload, Adam Internet offer a 5 GB pre-paid and 5 GB off-peak
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Introduction Currently based in Sydney, Australia, with over eighty five thousand customers and earning an estimated fifty million dollars in the ’07-’08 period, Exetel is an Australian ISP that provides web hosting, voice over IP and broadband internet coverage to all Australian states but Tasmania.
Internet Services For standard ADSL broadband with speeds
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An Introduction iiNet is Australia’s third largest ISP, behind the two giants, BigPond and OptusNet. iiNet was founded in 1993, growing in a matter of years from a business in a suburban garage to a company to a company providing coverage to every state in Australia, thanks to the internet boom of
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Introduction Internode was founded in 1991 by Simon Hackett. Based in Adelaide, the ISP offers broadband internet for home and office, as well as web hosting and voice over IP phone services.
As of 2009, Internode have an estimated four hundred employees, and provide internet services around Australia.
Internet Services Internodes starter plan offers,
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Introduction Netspace started offering dial-up internet services to Australians in the 1990s. With their headquarters in the suburban areas of Melbourne, Victoria, its founders, Stuart Marburg and Richard Preen, run Netspace. Netspace supply their internet services through a wholesale agreement with Telstra. This means that rather than set up an infrastructure of
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An Introduction to Optus
Optus started life as the Government-owned AUSSAT in 1981, as a satellite company offering military and civilian communication services. In the 1990s, with moves to deregulate Australian telecommunications, AUSSAT was sold to Optus Communications. As Optus, the company’s first move was to offer long distance calls at cheaper
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An Introduction to Telstra
The company Telstra holds a firm place in the Australian consciousness. Formerly known as Telecom, the company began offering domestic telecommunications services in 1975.
Changing their name to Telstra in 1995, the company was taken out of Government control with three sell-offs in 1997, 1999 and 2006. This
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An Introduction Based in Sydney, Australia, TPG (short for Total Peripherals Group) have provided internet services to Australia for the last eighteen years.
Internet Services Like most internet providers in Australia, TPG offer standard ADSL internet as well as dialup, ADSL2+, website hosting and Voice Over IP. Another similarity TPG has with other Australian
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Introduction Like a surprising number of now-successful internet service providers, Westnet began as a company with its office in a bedroom. Rapidly growing with the internet boom of the late ‘90s, Westnet has no been acquired by ISP iiNet, which operates a separate internet service.
Westnet offer Broadband ADSL, ADSL2+, Satellite and
