DART Internet
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DART Internet, was an Internet service provider
founded in 2003 by James Austin and based in Fortitude Valley, a suburb of Brisbane
, Australia
. It offered cut-price Internet
access with unlimited data usage, and discounted setup fees which at the time were unknown in the Australian ISP Industry.
DART quickly grew beyond its system capabilities, frequently running out of bandwidth
. DART was part of a merger to form Direct Corporation in late 2003, in which three additional directors, Ranald McDonald, Michael Looke, and Stephen Thompson
were added to the board.
In a rash business decision by the company's new Managing Director, Ran McDonald, it obtained billing and management system services from Telenet Australia, further hindering the business functions because the new systems were largely incompatible with the data held on the original systems. Many customers reported that after the migration to the Telenet systems, they were being double billed for Internet services, and that their accounts were being randomly disabled for no apparent reason.
In late 2004 or early 2005, the administrators of Direct Data announced an agreement between DART and Direct that saw the DART business sold to Hotkey Internet Services for $222,000 - a fraction of what it was originally worth.
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
founded in 2003 by James Austin and based in Fortitude Valley, a suburb of Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It offered cut-price Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
access with unlimited data usage, and discounted setup fees which at the time were unknown in the Australian ISP Industry.
DART quickly grew beyond its system capabilities, frequently running out of bandwidth
Bandwidth (computing)
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it .Note that in textbooks on wireless communications, modem data transmission,...
. DART was part of a merger to form Direct Corporation in late 2003, in which three additional directors, Ranald McDonald, Michael Looke, and Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson is an online music producer for NPR and editor of several music-related columns for NPR.org, including Song Of The Day and Shadow Classics...
were added to the board.
In a rash business decision by the company's new Managing Director, Ran McDonald, it obtained billing and management system services from Telenet Australia, further hindering the business functions because the new systems were largely incompatible with the data held on the original systems. Many customers reported that after the migration to the Telenet systems, they were being double billed for Internet services, and that their accounts were being randomly disabled for no apparent reason.
In late 2004 or early 2005, the administrators of Direct Data announced an agreement between DART and Direct that saw the DART business sold to Hotkey Internet Services for $222,000 - a fraction of what it was originally worth.