[plug] verisign - iiNet and ihug

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

It's worth noting that the combined group will have roughly 300,000
customers. If a foreign company was to purchase them it'd most likely
be an ISP from another area of the world (where customer bases often range
into the millions, rather than hundreds of thousands). Perhaps not such
a big gorilla after all....

As for iHug, it's not clear from the paperwork published so far
who is in charge. the iiNet MD was most optimistic on TV last night
tho and seemed to htink he was the big kahuna now...


Indy.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:13:46AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > One of these days a company may come along and just *buy* iiNet. That
> > would have to be one big gorilla.
> 
> Like, say, iHug?
> 
> I suspect it's a "merger" like that of Wantree and iiNet - where's 
> Wantree now?
> 
> "The company plans on operating under both brands in Australia and 
> solely under the ihug brand in New Zealand. All staff from iiNet and 
> ihug will be retained."
> 
> http://www.whirlpool.net.au/
> 
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