About DIALix
History
DIALix was conceived in a suburban garage in Woodlands, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, in late 1989. DIALix offered modem dial-up access to a commercial Unix system - at a famously low price of 1 cent per minute.
Soon afterwards, DIALix obtained a UUCP (email and Usenet news only)
connection to the outside world by way of AARNet (the Australian Academic
and Research Network), providing email access for the first time to many Perth
residents. In doing so, DIALix was arguably the first business in Australia
providing Internet access to Australians outside of the academic environment.
DIALix was unique and inexpensive enough to attract customers from not only Perth but also the other states of Australia and even overseas - all calling long distance into the single Perth POP. For a while in the early 1990s, the main Internet connection for Indonesia was a phone call into DIALix!
In 1992, DIALix expanded east with the installation of a POP in Sydney, providing local call access to a whole new market at a time when ISPs were very few in number.
By 1994, DIALix had established sites in the five mainland Australian states
and the ACT.
The Present
DIALix now offers a number of POPs Australia wide and remains one of the
largest privately owned Internet Service Providers in Australia.
Our diverse customer base includes multi-national companies, schools,
small businesses, students, professionals and lots of families and home users.
On 1 January 2000, many aspects of the DIALix business including the "DIALix" name and rights to collect revenue from the DIALix customer base post-January 1 were acquired by JustNet Pty Ltd, a company with a close association with DIALix during its early years (most notably as publisher of the original DIALix User Guide).
Under new ownership, DIALix upgraded all services to full 56K modem access, introduced a number of new dial-up locations to extend DIALix's reach, added new facilities including more flexible pricing plans, easier ways to pay and much more detailed account management information. National roaming is now available for all accounts.
The Future
DIALix is now focusing more on broadband (particularly ADSL) connectivity for higher speed Internet access. We have also expanded our national reach for dial-in services to cover around 98% of the Australian population at a local call cost.
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