TPG's history as an ISP stretches back to the 90s. They were a budget dial-up provider then.
Vodafone, TPG propose 'merger of equals'
One of Australia's most acquisition-hungry telcos, TPG, is to merge with mobile carrier Vodafone Australia. It's spun as a “merger of equals”, which is nearly true: TPG will own 49.9 per cent of the new TPG Telecom Limited, while Vodafone Group and Hutchison (the international businesses who own Vodafone Hutchison Australia, …
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Thursday 30th August 2018 08:05 GMT Adam 1
At the retail side, I personally think it's not too bad. They don't really swim in each others' pool, so merging isn't likely to reduce either mobile or ISP competition. TPGs more recent acquisitions of iinet etc would be more worrying than this.
The bigger questions for the ACCC or whatever other toothless tiger would be things like whether they should be permitted to hold whatever 5G frequencies as one company.
/IANAL etc etc
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Friday 31st August 2018 05:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
TPG not great at all...
TPG has actually not got a lot of backhaul they focused on flats near the CBD's and most of their fibre is tied up in one transatlantic link they bought as part of pipe networks.
They focus on price and their products reflect that. None of their products seem good technically, they are cheap e.g. their peering arrangements are all slow links with no burst capacity for the number of users behind them.
They still do not know how to configure a IPv6 network or provide a robust DNS service despite owning pipe and iinet which have provided that service for a long time.
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Thursday 30th August 2018 06:25 GMT onefang
Before I moved house last month I was with Internode for Internet. Internode don't supply service to my new address, though I still have my mobile phone with them. While I was with Internode, they got bought by IInet, though left to operate as it's own brand. Then IInet got bought by TPG, leaving both IInet and Internode operating as their own brands. So will this basically end up as Vodaphone owning TPG that owns IInet that owns Internode, and it's turtles all the way down? I guess it's better than being Dodo's all the way down.