Telstra moving into the budget ISP market?
No-frills ISP joins Telstra family. (Australian IT)
Australian IT, the publisher who refreshes their story pages every 7 minutes to sell more ad views, has reported that Telstra has purchased Queensland-based ISP Hypermax. Hypermax only has 6000 users, but Telstra has indicated they may be purchasing other small ISPs in the future. This follows on from Telstra earlier bid to buy Dodo which was unsuccessful.
The article also states: “Applications for Big Pond broadband are running at about 1000 per day. Milne claimed that on the day after Sunday’s launch of the first ad, applications jumped 14 per cent.” If accurate, this would have them growing their customer base at roughly twice the pace of rival Optus.