E-Wire active
Perth residential-estate communications network: broadband internet, free-to-air TV, VoIP and Foxtel over underground cable to housing estates (a division of Broadcast Engineering Services (Australia, ACN 066 971 533) Pty Ltd); distinct from Over the Wire; still active.
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| E-Wire | by 2002 |
Aliases
- e-wire.net.au
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | by 2002 by | Earliest Wayback capture of e-wire.net.au Jul 2002. |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | acquisition | Broadcast Engineering Services | division E-Wire operated as the residential-estate communications division of Broadcast Engineering Services (Australia Pty Ltd. |
by Jul 2002 | official official forum |
| incoming | split | iiNet | Ellenbrook HFC cable customers iiNet sold its Ellenbrook (WA HFC cable customers to Broadcast Engineering Services (BES/Cable Engineering Services; service continued under the e-wire brand. iiNet had provided services over the BES-built cable under an earlier joint venture. |
c. Jul 2002 | archive archive forum forum |
| incoming | split | iiNet | Dalyellup HFC cable network e-wire (BES took over the Dalyellup (Bunbury, WA cable service from iiNet; e-wire continued using iiNet's Dalyellup infrastructure while it upgraded the head-end. |
c. Jul 2002 | archive archive |
| outgoing | split | OptiComm | WA estate networks OptiComm acquired the rights to operate former E-Wire HFC/FTTH networks (e.g. Brighton estate and upgraded the cable network to DOCSIS 3.0. |
Nov 2011 | news |