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Access Communications inactive

Early Western Australian ISP (Access Communications (WA); website accesswa.com.au), acquired by iiNet c. Dec 1996 (some sources: Dec 1997).

Founded in WA. http://www.accesswa.com.au

Name history

NameFromTo
Access Communications by 1997

Aliases

Lifecycle

KindDateDetailsRefs
birth by 1997 by Provable by Apr 1997 (Cynosure listing). NB: previously-cited 'ACN 068 763 609 / Access Communications (WA) Pty Ltd (ASIC)' is invalid (checksum fails, no such entity in ABN Lookup) — claim removed.
death Dec 1997 Acquired by iiNet Technologies in December 1997 (iiNet's own archived redirect page for the absorbed company: 'In December 1997, Access Communications was acquired by Perth's leading Internet provider iiNet Technologies (that's us)'). Note: iiNet's later-compressed 'through the years' history grouped this with Online Information Systems as 1996, and the 1998-era iiNet timeline listed it under Dec 1997; the primary archived source confirms Dec 1997. archive archive
note Apr 1997 by Domain identified as accesswa.com.au (not access.net.au, which belongs to Access Net Australia): Kim Davies' Australian ISP List (Apr 1997) entry for Access Communications lists Web Site http://www.accesswa.com.au/, email tbontes@accesswa.com.au. accesswa.com.au captured by Wayback from 18 Apr 1998. archive archive

Transitions

DirectionTypeOther partyArm / notesYearRefs
outgoing acquisition iiNet 100%
Access Communications (WA, accesswa.com.au acquired by iiNet Technologies in December 1997 (iiNet's archived accesswa redirect page, confirmed. Earlier 'Dec 1995'/'c. Dec 1996' records were unsupported; iiNet's compressed later history grouped it with OIS as 1996.		 Dec 1997 archive

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