| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | Gold Coast, Australia 2010 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
| Services |
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Number of employees | 200 |
| Parent | Vocus Group |
| Website | clubtelco |
ClubTelco is an Australian Telecommunications and Internet Service Provider founded in 2010, that provides telecommunications services to consumers and small businesses around Australia. Competing with the likes of Telstra, Optus, iiNet, Dodo and Internode. ClubTelco's is owned by Vocus Group, a publicly listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange. [1] It serves over 120,000 customers. [2]
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iiNet Limited is Australia's second-largest internet service provider with more than 1.3 million customers as of 15 August 2011. It was acquired by TPG Telecom in September 2015 for $1.56 billion, but retained its retail brand name in the market. Its subsidiaries include Internode, Westnet, AAPT Limited, Adam Internet, TransACT and Netspace. Their focus is primarily on ADSL-based Internet access, using their own ADSL2+ infrastructure, reselling Telstra ADSL services and more recently in reselling the NBN. iiNet also provides optical-fibre, dial-up, and voice services.
In the summer of 2011, the company merged with Eftel in a reverse takeover, [2] beginning what was expected to be a significant round of consolidation in the Australian ISP industry. [3]
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Following the acquisition of Eftel by M2 Group in 2013, [4] ClubTelco operated as a subsidiary brand of M2, until M2 itself merged [5] with Vocus Group on 5 February 2016.
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Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale & business telecommunications provider, Vocus provides retail, wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand. Vocus offers Data Network services like Internet, Dark Fibre, IP WAN, Unified Communications and Telephony and Cloud Services to mid, large and corporate businesses direct and also acts as a wholesaler. The company owns and operates 18 Data Centres across Australia and New Zealand and has an onshore Network Operations Centre (NOC) run by the engineers who built the network.
