While 2001 will be remembered for many things, it was the year the last remaining free Australian ISPs became tangled in their non-profitable business model and sunk once and for all. Or did it?
The Victorian State Government is understood to have awarded a whole of government Internet services contract to service providers Pacific Internet, Optus, Eftel and Netspace.
As spam becomes the number one issue concerning Internet users ISPs are beginning to cash in on the trend, offering spam and virus filtering services for a fee.
Restructuring within Asia-Pacific ISP Pacific Internet has led to job losses in Sydney, as the company's technical operations are consolidated in Melbourne.
Pacific Internet has released a Premium Business DSL plan with a 99.9 percent service level agreement-but you have to pay for it.
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