Fleet Broadband inactive
Perth wholesale Internet infrastructure provider; acquired Paradox Digital c.2001 and XiS's WA ADSL customer base 2002; Eftel (Datafast) was a major investor; became DFT Wholesale (Fleet Broadband Holdings Pty Ltd, ACN 096 576 377).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Fleet Broadband | by Apr 2001 |
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | by Apr 2001 by | Perth wholesale provider; existed by 2001 when it acquired Paradox Digital (Gemini ABN date of 2004 contradicted its 2002 Datafast deal). | official news |
| note | Aug 2002 | Acquired XiS's Western Australian ADSL customer base (confirmed by Fleet National Sales Manager John Lane, 1 Aug 2002); a full takeover of XiS was considered but did not proceed. | news news |
| death | by Aug 2007 by | Became a partly-owned subsidiary of Datafast; rebranded DFT Wholesale Internet. | archive archive |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | acquisition | Paradox Digital | 100% Fleet Broadband acquired Paradox Digital (wholesale bandwidth provider. |
20 Apr 2001 | news |
| outgoing | acquisition | Eftel | 100% Datafast/Eftel took Fleet Broadband as a partly-owned subsidiary; rebranded DFT Wholesale Internet. |
c. 2002 | wikipedia official |
| incoming | acquisition | XIS | WA ADSL customer base Fleet Broadband acquired XiS's Western Australian ADSL customer base (confirmed by Fleet National Sales Manager John Lane, 1 Aug 2002; WA XiS ADSL customers moved to Fleet. A full takeover of XiS was considered but did not proceed. |
Aug 2002 | news news news |