IHUG - Internet Home User Group.
The second-largest
ISP in
New Zealand with an active user-base of approximately 100,000 customers. Based in
Auckland,
New Zealand it has been in existence since 1994. Run by two brothers - Nick and Tim Wood - with the financial help of their father John - it is considered one of the more
user-friendly ISPs in the country.
IHUG has
assimilated a few other companies since it's inception. Specifically ES-net (a small
South Island ISP), InterWeb (becoming it's
Point Of Presence in Adelaide) and a few others.
IHUG provide
56k dial-up
modem connections to the whole country and also to a few cities in
Australia, namely
Sydney,
Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Wollongong. IHUG also caters for residential and business customers that require faster connections so are also able to provide
DDS,
ADSL,
ISDN,
fibre-optic (
Wellington only), and high-speed satellite internet access.
Another source of revenue comes from wholesale satellite
bandwidth to ISPs in Australia and an alternative toll-carrier to New Zealand's main telephone companies
Telecom,
Clear, and
Saturn.
IHUG also has a 51% share of controlling interest in
Video Ezy, a New Zealand-wide video rental chain.
You can find their homepage at http://www.ihug.co.nz or http://www.ihug.com.au.