Internode customer benefits from iiNet acquisition

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 02 February 2012 03:46

IT Industry - Market

National ISP, Internode, says its acquisition by iiNet is already paying dividends for its customers, with its most popular broadband services now available through 450 telephone exchanges nationally.

iiNet (ASX: IIN) has just this week completed the acquisition of Internode and Agile Communications, announced on December 22 last year, and Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, says the first 'customer-visible benefit' of Internode becoming a full subsidiary of iiNet is that the company has added 242 telephone exchanges equipped with iiNet DSLAM equipment to the list of its own DSLAM-equipped exchanges.

DSLAMs (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers) are devices that allow broadband providers such as Internode and iiNet to deliver ADSL-based broadband services over copper telephone lines.

'Once the DSLAM networks are integrated, this more than doubles the number of exchanges, from 208 to 450, through which Internode can deliver its most popular services, Internode Easy Broadband and Easy Naked. Blending our DSLAM coverage benefits customers of both Internode and iiNet,' Hackett said.