written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message adam internet pty ltd. type subsidiary industry telecommunications fate integrated into iinet founded adelaide south australia 1992 headquarters adelaide south australia products broadband dialup colocation data centre webhosting voip cloud wimax number of employees 180 est. 2012 parent tpg website www.adam.com.au adam internet was an australian internet service provider that services residents businesses and government departments primarily within south australia . contents 1 background 2 milestones 3 references 4 external links background edit originally founded in 1986 as the adelaide amiga club adam internet grew out of the original bulletin board system of the adelaide amiga user group . 1 the bulletin board was set up in 1987 and was originally run by the user group but was co opted by its sysop greg hicks . in 1989 it transformed into a commercial multi line tbbs based bulletin board which at the time was the largest bulletin board system in the southern hemisphere and for many years was the most popular in australia . with 100 staff members 2 and a customer base of 80 000 3 in 2009 adam internet held 35 % of south australia s internet market . adam internet provides a range of separately metered services at no extra charge 4 some of these services being operated by adam directly examples including a gaming community 3fl which operates a range of servers for various games ; abc iview ; and file servers filearena which hosts a large file repository containing but not limited to games linux distributions streaming of various radio stations including local youth radio station fresh 92.7 and a tucows mirror . in july 2012 adam internet celebrated their 25th anniversary updating the company logo to reflect this achievement . in august 2012 adam internet announced that their managing director scott hicks would be leaving the company . 5 in august 2013 adam internet signs deal for take over from iinet . in december 2015 adam internet is disbanded services and existing customers are moved onto iinet . milestones edit adam internet launches the adammax network a wimax product november 2009 in an australian first local provider adam internet has secured a 3 million contract with the state government to eliminate blackspots in the metropolitan area . 3 6 references edit lemay renai 5 february 2010 . friday five adam internet s scott hicks . delimiter . retrieved 30 august 2010 . tredrea alexandra 2 january 2008 . clocking up the hours . pdf . the advertiser south australia . a b adam internet australia pdf press release . alvarion . unmetered content adam internet . adam.com.au . 31 october 2012 . retrieved 2013 06 04 . adam internet md departs . . zdnet . stewart frances 14 august 2009 . adam internet to overcome blackspots for 55 000 users . adelaidenow news.com.au . external links edit official website 3fl gaming network filearena adam forum on whirlpool adam internet listing on broadband choice v t e internet service providers of australia economy of australia internet censorship current ausbbs amcom bigair connexus internet dreamtilt devoted nbn exetel m2 group clubtelco dodo services eftel iprimus nbnsp optus virgin broadband origin net skymesh telstra bigpond pacnet tpg telecom adam internet iinet internode westnet vodafone zettanet wholesale nbn tpg telecom aapt limited agile communications chime communications pipe networks nextgen networks origin net telstra wholesale former chariot connect.com.au grapevine neighbourhood cable netspace opel networks ozemail pacific internet pegasus networks people telecom related topics internet in australia national broadband network retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adam internet & oldid 742471941 categories internet service providers of australiaiinet acquisitionscompanies established in 1992companies based in adelaidehidden categories articles with a promotional tone from august 2014all articles with a promotional toneuse dmy dates from july 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersuse british english from november 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 22 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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