ISP's and IT providers that have been absorbed into One.NZ?

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#3226145 3-May-2024 16:56

xpd:

I was with Sinesurf at the start of my internet experience on my Amiga around '96 I think. Unlimited dialup for $35. Think it was IHUG after that, when I started working there. Never bothered looking at pricing until I left :D

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#3226190 3-May-2024 19:47

Been with half of these guys at some point

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#3226193 3-May-2024 20:00

es.co.nz. My first ISP and taken over by Ihug.

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#3226210 3-May-2024 20:37

I used to work at paradise, which then became part of Telstra Saturn, which then became Telstra Clear. I left a couple of years after that - TCL was an absolute braindead place to work.

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#3226363 4-May-2024 11:14

iHug were great. Them were the days.

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#3226497 4-May-2024 16:51

I remember when KiwiOnline first came out- we couldn’t believe unlimited dial up could be so cheap!

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#3227064 6-May-2024 16:18

Among the ISPs, you missed Netlink.

Also, Saturn was never an ISP. It only wholesaled its services to other ISPs.

Tesltra (NZ) bought Netlink.

Saturn bought Paradise

Telstra (Oz) and UIH (US) merged their subsidiaries Telstra (NZ) and Saturn into TelstraSaturn, with a small shareholding to Sasktel (Canada) who brought the Nortel expertise. TelstraSaturn thus launched with two ISPs of its own and a number of others that it wholesaled services to.

Telstra (Oz) eventually bought out the other two shareholders (to be fair, UIH, by then UGC [nowadays Liberty Global] had always bought Kiwi Cable—renamed to Saturn Communications—with the intent of selling it for the capital gain).

There was also Chello, a Dutch broadband ISP which was one of the ISPs that launched on HFC in the early days. They were another sister company of Saturn (UIH owned a lot of companies. UIH was not the junior partner in the Telstra/UIH Joint Venture that was TelstraSaturn) but they merely exited (I think all their customers moved to Paradise), they were never bought by TelstraSaturn/TelstraClear/...

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