<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px"><div>That looks like an acquisition to me.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Andrew Yager" <andrew@rwts.com.au><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:21 PM<br />
<b>To</b>: "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net><br />
<b>Subject</b>: [AusNOG] Fwd: [Customer Update] FirstPath and Vocus Communications</span>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm sure many of you just got this - but what does this mean?
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<div>Did Vocus buy FirstPath? Is this just a shared selling agreement?</div>
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<div>In confusion,</div>
<div>Andrew</div>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The Vocus Team</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marketing@vocus.com.au">marketing@vocus.com.au</a>></span><br />
Date: 25 February 2016 at 16:05<br />
Subject: [Customer Update] FirstPath and Vocus Communications<br />
To: <a href="mailto:andrew@rwts.com.au">andrew@rwts.com.au</a><br />
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<h1 style="margin:60px 0 0;padding:0;font-size:52px;line-height:45px;color:#fff;font-family:Sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Vocus & firstpath.</h1>
<p style="margin:14px 0px 0px;font-size:24px;line-height:25px;color:#ffffff;font-family:sans-serif">Creating one of Australia's most highly connected fibre networks.</p>
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<h2><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">Good Afternoon,</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">We're pleased to announce that on the 25th February, Vocus Communications and FirstPath join forces to create one of the most highly connected fibre networks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">The combined Vocus and FirstPath networks offer your customers access to over 3,500 buildings across Australia. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">It's still early days for us coming together and there will be many exciting developments to come. We will be in contact with you in the coming days to discuss and as always help you maximise opportunities. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">Is there anything your business needs to do differently?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">No, nothing has changed in regards to your services, ordering, support or your account its business as usual and please continue to use the same contracts. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">In the meantime, should you have any questions please contact us on <a href="http://mktg.vocus.net/p0400Y00kF0d0X0Ewk0AFK0" target="_blank">sales@vocus.com.au</a> or call <a href="tel:1300%2088%2099%2088" target="_blank" value="+611300889988">1300 88 99 88</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">Regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">The FirstPath and Vocus Team</span></p>
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<p style="font-weight:normal;display:inline-block;margin:20px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:23px;color:#121733;font-family:sans-serif;background:#ffffff">Vocus Communications 2016</p>
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