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Dart InternetDART Internet, an ISP founded in 2003 by James Edward Austin and based in Fortitude Valley, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Offering cut-price internet access with Unlimited data usage, and discounted setup fees which at the time were unknown in the Australian ISP Industry. The company quickly grew beyond the businesses system capabilities, running out of bandwidth frequently, before forming Direct Corporation in early 2004, in which three additional directors, Ranald McDonald, Michael Looke, and Stephen Thompson were added to the companies board. Direct Corporation was considered a failure, with the new directors sacking James Austin following several disagreements. Debts of the business began running up into the millions. In a rash business decision by the companies new Managing Director, Ran McDonald, the company obtained billing and management system services from Telenet, which further hindered the business functions due to the new systems being largely incompatible with the data held on the original systems. Many customer 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. Reports from staff of DART Internet began to emerge on Whirlpool.net.au that DART Internet had failed to pay any employee income tax or superannuation, and that the business was several weeks behind in paying wages. Eventually, due to falling severely into arrears with payments by several months, DART Internet's upstream provider AAPT called in Pricewaterhouse Coopers to act as administrators for the company, and had the business placed into receivership in August 2004. In early November 2004, DART's administrators announced the business had been sold to Hotkey Internet Services for between $200,000 and $300,000 - a fraction of what the business was originally worth. External links *Hotkey Internet Services
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