People Telecom

Last updated
People Telecom Pty Ltd
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Telecommunications
Founded2000
FounderRyan O'Hare
Colin Marland
FateAcquired
Headquarters,
Products Broadband
Telephone
Mobile
Web Hosting
Revenue A$90,000,000 (2006)
Number of employees
70
Parent Vocus Group
Website www.peopletelecom.com.au

People Telecom is an Australian telecommunications company and subsidiary of Vocus Group. It resells internet access and telephony services. It was founded in 2000 by Ryan O'Hare and Colin Marland. [1]

In 2004 People Telecom achieved stock market listing [2] by doing a reverse takeover of Swiftel Ltd. People Telecom was listed in the 2005 Australian Deloitte Fast 50 list of growing companies. In August 2007, John Stanton took over as chief executive officer from founder Ryan O'Hare.

Swiftel Ltd was a listed Australian company founded in 2000 by Christopher Gale. [3] It was granted a Telecommunications licence, and took control of Roebuck Resources, a listed speculative mining investment company, by reverse takeover. [4] At the time of its takeover by People Telecom, it had a growing data telecom business, but was under-capitalized for rapid expansion.

People Telecom was acquired by M2 Group in December 2008. [5] M2 Group merged with Vocus Communications on 22 February 2016 in a merger worth AU$3.75 billion. [6]

Related Research Articles

Telecommunications in New Zealand are fairly typical for an industrialised country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">TPG (Internet service provider)</span> Australian internet service provider

TPG is an Australian internet service provider that specialises in consumer and business internet services as well as mobile telephone services. As of August 2015, TPG is the second largest internet service provider in Australia and is the largest mobile virtual network operator. As such, it has over 671,000 ADSL2+ subscribers, 358,000 landline subscribers and 360,000 mobile subscribers, and owns the second largest ADSL2+ network in Australia, consisting of 391 ADSL2+ DSLAMs. It also operates in New Zealand.

The telecommunications industries within the sector of information and communication technology is made up of all telecommunications/telephone companies and internet service providers and plays a crucial role in the evolution of mobile communications and the information society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">TDC Holding A/S</span> Danish telecommunications company

TDC Holding A/S or TDC Group is a Danish telecommunications company dating back to 1879. TDC Group is the largest telecommunications company in Denmark. The company's headquarters are located in Copenhagen.

Innovate Corp. is an American public financial services company founded in 1994.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orcon Limited</span> New Zealand telecommunications company

Orcon Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications company. It is New Zealand's fourth largest Internet service provider (ISP). In 2013 it had a 5% share of the fixed line market.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eftel</span> Telecommunications company in Australia

Eftel Limited was an internet service provider and telecommunications provider in Australia, with approximately 120,000 active accounts. It was established in 1999. Eftel offers a range of services including: DSL and dial-up Internet access, web hosting and telephony services - to the retail, corporate and wholesale telecommunications markets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Slingshot (ISP)</span> New Zealand telecommunications company

Slingshot is the fourth largest telecommunications company in New Zealand. It has an approximately 16% market share of the New Zealand fixed telephone landline and residential broadband market. There are 300+ employees who all work in Auckland CBD.

Cision Ltd. is a public relations and earned media software company and services provider. The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to offering Cision-branded services, the company owns a portfolio of companies including PRNewswire, PRWeb, Bulletin Intelligence, L'Argus de la presse, Help a Reporter Out (HARO), CEDROM-SNI, Prime Research, and Canada Newswire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vocus Group</span> Australian telecommunications company

Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in North Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale, business, government and consumer telecommunications provider, Vocus owns and manages Australia's second largest intercapital fibre network. Vocus provides retail, wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand. Vocus offers data network services such as 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 run by the engineers who built the network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wind Telecom</span> Italian telecommunications holding company

Wind Telecom S.p.A. was an Italian telecommunications holding company owned by the multinational telecommunications company VimpelCom Ltd., originally controlled by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Primus Telecommunications (Australia)</span> Australian subsidiary of the telecommunications provider

Primus Telecommunications Pty Ltd. is an Australian telecommunications company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus Communications that primarily focuses on fixed, mobile, and broadband services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">M2 Group</span> Former Australian retailer

M2 Group Ltd was an Australian retailer and wholesaler of telecommunications services as well as power, gas and insurance products.

Vaughan Garfield Bowen is an Australian businessman. He is the founder and former executive director of M2 Telecommunications, an Australian telecommunications company.

CallPlus was a telecommunications company providing phone, calling, internet, mobile and advanced connectivity services to New Zealand businesses. Since 2016, CallPlus has been part of the Vocus Group, which is the third-largest telecommunications company in New Zealand, and fourth-largest in Australia.

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. It serves over 120,000 customers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Airtel Africa</span> African subsidiary of Airtel, providing telecommunications and mobile money services

Airtel Africa plc, trading as Airtel, is an Indian multinational company that provides telecommunications and mobile money services in 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East, Central and West Africa. Airtel Africa is majority owned by the Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. Airtel Africa offers mobile voice and data services as well as mobile money services both nationally and internationally. Airtel Nigeria is the most profitable unit of Airtel Africa, due to its cheap data plans in Nigeria. As of March 2019, Airtel had over 99 million subscribers in the continent. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dodo Services</span> Australian telecommunications and energy retailer

Dodo Services Pty Ltd is an Australian Internet service and mobile telephony provider that is based in Melbourne and is a fully owned subsidiary of the Vocus Group.

MyNetFone Australia Pty Ltd is part of the MNF Group, the company that owns and operates Australia's largest VoIP network, which is also the 3rd largest interconnected voice network in the country. MyNetFone provides broadband internet and cloud-based communication services to residential, business and government sectors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Spenceley</span> Prominent Australian investor

James Spenceley is an Australian investor, entrepreneur, company director and politician. He is the founder of Vocus Communications and an active Venture Capital investor. He is also the Chairman of Airtasker (ASX:ART) and a Non-Executive Director of Kogan.com (ASX:KGN) as well as ASX listed Think Childcare Limited (ASX:TNK).

References