Exetel
{{Short description|Australian internet service provider}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Exetel Pty Ltd
| logo = Exetel Logo 2014.png
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| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Telecommunication
| foundation = {{Start date|df=yes|2001|08|29}}
| founder = John Linton
| location_city = Sydney
| location_country = Australia
| area_served = Australia
| key_people = Annette Linton (Chair)
Richard Purdy (CEO)
| products = Broadband internet, fixed line, mobile phone services
| production =
| services = {{Plainlist|
- ADSL/ADSL2+
- Wireless broadband
- Residential and business web hosting,
- VoIP
- POTS telephony
- Mobile phone
- Mobile broadband internet
}}
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| num_employees = 300
| parent = Superloop
| website = {{URL|www.exetel.com.au}}}}
Exetel is an Australian ISP which provides ADSL, web hosting, VoIP, and other internet services to customers across Australia. Exetel's headquarters are in offices in Sydney, and its switching centres are distributed in capital city secure data centre facilities around mainland Australia.
Exetel resells products from NBN Co, Telstra, Optus and AAPT. Many of the larger Australian ISPs have chosen to deploy their own infrastructure (including wireless) to provide faster and less expensive services than Telstra offers. Exetel does not deploy its own infrastructure outside of its own switching centres. Instead, it is a wholesale customer of Tier 1 wholesale telco providers who provide IP Transit, Inter-capital Transmission and various Residential and Business Grade Access Network products that Exetel integrate and manage for its customers.
History
Exetel began operating in the early 1990s as a technology consulting company, providing technical and management consulting services until December 2003. At that time the Exetel administration decided to become a service provider of data and telephone communications services.{{cite web|url=http://www.exetel.com.au/aboutus|title=About us|publisher=Exetel|date=13 June 2015}}
It began offering ADSL1 services in mid-February 2004, SHDSL corporate services in April 2004 and wireless broadband through Unwired in June 2004. Towards the end of 2004 Exetel added wire line telephony services using the Verizon network and mobile services using the Vodafone network. Exetel activated its own VoIP switches in March 2006 and began offering ADSL2+ services on 20 July 2006.
Exetel has PoPs in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and Auckland.{{cite web|url=https://www.exetel.com.au/members/images/exetel_network.jpeg|title=Network Diagram|publisher=Exetel|access-date=23 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723094936/https://www.exetel.com.au/members/images/exetel_network.jpeg|archive-date=23 July 2008|url-status=dead}}
On 18 November 2007 Exetel was included in the Deloitte's Rising Star listings as one of the fastest growing 50 Australian technology companies with a cumulative growth of 159% in that two-year period.{{cite web|url=http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/Technology_Fast_50_Australia_2007(3).pdf|title=Technology Fast 50 Australia 2007 – This year's shining stars|publisher=Deloitte|date=22 February 2008|access-date=23 June 2008}}
In June 2021 Superloop acquired Exetel for $110 million in cash and shares.{{Cite web|last=Duckett|first=Chris|title=Superloop to purchase Exetel for AU$110 million|url=https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/superloop-to-purchase-exetel-for-au110-million/|access-date=2021-06-26|website=ZDNet|language=en}}[https://www.afr.com/street-talk/superloop-dials-into-internet-provider-exetel-20210607-p57yux Superloop dials into internet provider Exetel] Australian Financial Review 7 June 2021
Services
Exetel offers the following internet related services:
- NBN using all access technologies except Satellite
- Mobile voice services
- Mobile broadband services
- Home wireless broadband services
- ADSL/ADSL2+
- Wireless ethernet
- Mid-Band ethernet/ethernet over copper
- Ethernet over fibre
- Residential and business web hosting
- VoIP
- POTS telephony
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.exetel.com.au}}
{{Internet service providers of Australia|state=collapsed}}
Category:Companies based in Sydney
Category:Internet service providers of Australia
Category:Privately held companies of Australia