NetSmart
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| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Internet Service Provider |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand |
| Products | Fibre & Wireless Broadband, Telephony services, Hosting, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Hotspots |
| Website | www |
NetSmart Limited was a telecommunication service provider based in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand.
Key Company Milestones[edit]
- 1998 - NetSmart is born;
- 1999 - NetSmart starts web hosting;
- 2002 - NetSmart starts building a broadband wireless network in the Bay of Plenty;
- 2002 - NetSmart connects to the Auckland Peering Exchange;
- 2004 - NetSmart moves to new custom built data centre in Regency House, Tauranga;
- 2005 - Broadband coverage is now extended from Waihi through to Whakatāne;
- 2007 - NetSmart builds DMR backhaul from Auckland (Sky Tower) to Tauranga, scalable to Gigabit Ethernet;
- 2008 - NetSmart adds fibre based backup to Auckland DMR link;
- 2009 - NetSmart starts trials of licensed WiMAX and starts fitout of a new data centre in Tauranga;
- 2010 - NetSmart launches business licensed WiMAX service in Matamata-Piako, Hauraki, Western Bay and Tauranga Districts;
- 2011 - NetSmart launches high speed residential licensed WiMAX broadband and phone service;
- 2012 - NetSmart increases its licensed WiMAX coverage to Hamilton and Cambridge, Waikato;
- 2012 - NetSmart increases its licensed WiMAX coverage to Bombay region, Auckland;
- 2013 - NetSmart acquired Skynet - Waikato region based wireless ISP;
- 2014 - NetSmart extends its after hour and weekend customer support;
- 2015 - NetSmart launched its Ultrafast Wireless product;
- 2015 - NetSmart started a sister company in Nairobi, Kenya;
- 2016 - NetSmart internet branch is acquired by Lightwire Limited existing staff of the business continues operation under the name "Eco Datacenter";[1]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lightwire Purchase and Eco Datacenter Re Branding". Netsmart.co.nz. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
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