OzEmail inactive
Major early Australian ISP; listed on NASDAQ (1996) and ASX; bought by MCI WorldCom in 1999; retail assets sold to iiNet in 2005 (FEDORA (2500) PTY LIMITED, ACN 066 387 157).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| OzEmail | 1992 |
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 1992 | Founded by Sean Howard as Oz-E-mail; relaunched as ISP OzEmail in 1994. | |
| death | 2005 | Retail/internet assets acquired by iiNet on 28 Feb 2005; brand discontinued. |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | acquisition | Access One | 100% Access One acquired by OzEmail; business later rebranded UUNet. due to close 24 Nov 1997. announced. |
10 Nov 1997 | wikipedia news news |
| incoming | acquisition | Camtech (SA) | SA internet business OzEmail acquired Camtech's SA internet service business (31 March 1998. |
Mar 1998 | wikipedia |
| outgoing | acquisition | MCI WorldCom | 100% WorldCom launched a takeover bid Dec 1998; became 100% owner Feb 1999. |
1999 | news wikipedia |
| incoming | acquisition | PowerUp | 100% PowerUp sold to OzEmail (per founder Lloyd Ernst. |
full control Mar-Apr 2000 | wikipedia news news |
| incoming | acquisition | SENET | 100% SENET (>35,000 customers absorbed into the OzEmail/UUNet group. |
c. 2000 | wikipedia wikipedia forum |
| incoming | acquisition | Asia Online | subscriber base Asia Online (incl. Internet Access Australia's base subscriber base later to OzEmail. |
November 2001 | wikipedia news news |
| outgoing | acquisition | iiNet | 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 |