Exetel's John Linton passes away

In a post on Linton's blog, his son, James Linton, said the Exetel chief had suffered a mild stroke during "doing what he liked best, eating at a nice restaurant, drinking nice wine and talking about the state of the telecommunications market in Australia".

The ISP was to as well look at opportunities in Tasmania and New Zealand as then as in Corporate Voice over Internet Protocol.

The past eight years

"Whatever minor 'successes' we may have enjoyed over the past eight years, and they have been few and far between in the wide sweep of telecommunications in Australia, we need to become far more successful in the short run and beyond," he said." "The 'landscape' we now confront is very, very different to what it was in January 2004 when all is said and done is Exetel, both in size and 'composition'.