[AusNOG] iiNet in Trading Halt...

[Graham, Mathew]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/iinet-b
eats-tpg-to-snare-aapts-struggling-consumer-division/story-fn4iyzsr-1225
898688480

IINET has won the battle for AAPT, the nation's third-largest
telecommunications company.

The complex transaction will see the telco's struggling consumer arm
hived off to iiNet for up to $60 million.

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It's official then.

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 11:02 AM
To: John Edwards
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] iiNet in Trading Halt...

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010, John Edwards wrote:

> Remember in 1995 when the ISP was busy there was always one bad modem
that answered your call but didn't sync? No-one ever found it amongst
the cabling.. they just kept adding more lines to make it statistically
insignificant until 56K dialup gave them a reason to go with ISDN
indial.

*laughs* I remember having one of the slightly older (than the 16yo
Adrian)
ISP admins drop a rather useful hint to me. Soon after, I started
plotting
connect rate and length graphs - it soon showed both bad modems and
dodgy
cables. Ah, Perl and GD..


Adrian

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