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Perth-based ISP that grew into one of Australia's largest, acquired by TPG in 2015 (IINET LIMITED, ACN 068 628 937).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| iiNet | 1993 | |
| iiNet SA | Jun 1996 | Apr 1997 |
Aliases
- iiNet Technologies (SA) Pty Ltd
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 1993 | Founded in Perth by Michael Malone. | |
| note | Apr 1997 | iiNet SA (incorporated as iiNet Technologies (SA) Pty Ltd) opened Jun 1996, opened by Michael Malone with local staff Leigh Hart (business manager) and John Lindsay (technical manager), offering Adelaide and Gawler local-call dialup; grew to a top-5 SA ISP; sold Apr 1997 to OurWorld Global Network (Sydney) as the foundation of its planned national Internet aggregation service. | archive archive official |
| note | 14 Sep 1999 | Listed on ASX as IIN | official |
| death | 2015 | Acquired by TPG; operated as a TPG brand. |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | split | Byron Network Services | 100% — BNS customers folded into iiNet SA Byron Network Services (Adelaide, John Lindsay wound down as an ISP; customers folded into iiNet SA (opened Jun 1996. |
1996 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Online Information Systems | 100% Early acquisition strengthening iiNet's position in WA. |
1996 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Access Communications | 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 |
| outgoing | split | OurWorld Global Network | 100% — iiNet SA sold to OurWorld Global Network iiNet SA (Adelaide/Gawler dialup sold to OurWorld Global Network (Sydney as the foundation of its planned national Internet aggregation service. |
Apr 1997 | archive official |
| incoming | acquisition | MNS | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
1999 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Nettrek | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
Nov 1999 | official news |
| incoming | acquisition | Omen Internet | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
Nov 1999 | official news |
| incoming | acquisition | Wantree | 100% Perth-area acquisition. |
28 July 1999 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Infinite Data | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
2000 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Networx | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
2000 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Octal | 100% Post-IPO Perth-area acquisition. |
2000 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Granite Internet Services | iiNet acquired Granite Internet (Fleurieu Peninsula SA in its 2002 regional acquisition round; RuralNet (Mildura VIC was itself acquired by iiNet (announced 31 Dec 2002 — the earlier 'userbase mostly to RuralNet' claim was wrong on both ends. | 2002 | wikipedia news |
| incoming | acquisition | Hartingdale | 100% Sydney ISP. |
mid-2002 | wikipedia news archive archive |
| outgoing | split | E-Wire | 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 |
| outgoing | split | E-Wire | 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 |
| incoming | acquisition | RockNet | 100% Rockhampton ISP. |
by 21 Nov 2002 | wikipedia news archive news |
| incoming | acquisition | Webfront | 100% Regional NSW ISP (Griffith. |
2002 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Country Netlink | 100% Regional acquisition. |
2003 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | ihug | 100% Added ~130,000 customers; expanded into eastern Australia and New Zealand. |
2003 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Octa4 | 100% Acquisition. |
2003 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Origin Internet | 100% Regional acquisition. |
2003 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | RuralNet | 100% Regional acquisition. |
2003 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Tassienet | 100% Tasmanian acquisition (Tassienet, ex-Tasmania's Access Server. |
2003 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | WebOne | 100% Acquisition. |
2003 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | FlowCom | 100% iiNet acquired FlowCom (~A$6.3M including iGreen, Froggy Internet, Planet ISP. |
Feb 2004 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Malleenet | 100% Malleenet ISP / Malleenet Internet business names transferred to Connect West Pty Ltd ACN 073 156 779; by Dec 2006 domain served iiNet homepage (iiNet absorption. |
8 Oct 2004 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Internet Services of Virtual Communities | 100% Melbourne-based; added ~35,000 customers. |
2004 | official |
| incoming | acquisition | Wave (New Zealand) | 100% Expanded New Zealand presence. |
2004 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | BigBlue | 100% BigBlue became part of the iiNet group. |
2005 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | OzEmail | retail/internet assets Made iiNet third-largest ISP; >620,000 customers. ASX-announced 15 Feb 2005, completed 28 Feb 2005. |
15-28 Feb 2005 | official official |
| incoming | acquisition | iClick | Absorbed by Up'N'Away (later iiNet. | 2008 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Up'N'Away | 100% Brought ~3,000 customers. |
2008 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Westnet | 100% Westnet acquired for $81 million; cemented third-largest ISP status. |
2008 | wikipedia |
| incoming | split | AAPT | consumer operations AAPT's consumer operations sold to iiNet for $60 million; AAPT's remaining business continued. |
2010 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Netspace | 100% Melbourne ADSL ISP; iiNet acquired it to expand in Victoria. |
2010 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Internode | 100% sold to iiNet Internode acquired by iiNet; brand progressively retired. |
Dec 2011 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Supernerd | 100% iiNet acquired Melbourne residential ISP Supernerd (early Sep 2011; ~4,000 customers migrated. |
Sep 2011 | news |
| incoming | acquisition | TransACT | 100% Canberra broadband provider; ~140,000 subscribers. |
Nov 2011 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Adam Internet | 100% South Australian ISP; ~$60 million deal, completed end Aug 2013. |
2013 | wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | Internet Tasmania (Intas) | 100% Intas absorbed by iiNet directly (user report; no public announcement. |
by May 2013 | wikipedia archive archive |
| outgoing | acquisition | TPG Internet | 100% sold to TPG TPG acquired iiNet in 2015. |
2015 | wikipedia |