Vocus Group

Vocus Group Limited
Company typePrivate
ASXVOC
ISINAU000000VOC6
IndustryDiversified Telecommunication Services
Founded2008 (2008)
FounderJames Spenceley
Headquarters,
Area served
Key people
  • Ellie Sweeney (CEO)
  • Nitesh Naidoo (CFO)
Products
Brands
Owner
ParentVoyage Australia Pty Limited
Divisions
  • Wholesale & International
  • Enterprise & Government
  • Retail
  • New Zealand
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.vocus.com.au

Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in North Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley[1] as a wholesale, business, government and consumer telecommunications provider, Vocus owns and manages Australia's second largest intercapital fibre network. Vocus provides retail, wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand.[2] Vocus offers data network services such as Internet, dark fibre, IP WAN, unified communications and telephony and cloud services[3] to mid, large and corporate businesses direct and also acts as a wholesaler.[4] The company owns and operates 18 data centres across Australia and New Zealand and has an onshore network operations centre run by the engineers who built the network.[5]

Vocus acquired Perth-based Amcom in 2015. Vocus merged with M2 Group on 22 February 2016 in a merger worth AU$3.75 billion,[6] before which it reported profits of AU$62.25M.[7] The merger made it Australia's fourth largest telecommunications company, with 471,000 subscribers.[8]

The company acquired Nextgen Networks for $861 million[9] in October 2016. This allows Vocus access to the National Broadband Network backhaul and infrastructure in Northern Australia serving the offshore gas projects.[9]

Vocus was acquired by Voyage Australia Pty Limited, a consortium of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) and superannuation fund Aware Super, in 2021.

  1. ^ "VOC.AU Company Profile & Executives - Vocus Group Ltd. - Wall Street Journal". quotes.wsj.com. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Vocus and Amcom create largest trans-Tasman network infrastructure provider". ARN. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Vocus-Amcom deal bears fruit".
  4. ^ Dinham, Peter (5 April 2016). "Vocus launches NBN Connect for partners". iTWire. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Vocus expands Auckland data centre operation". iTnews. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  6. ^ Stewart, Robb M. "Vocus, M2 Group Plan Merger", Wall Street Journal, 27 September 2015. Accessed 3 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Vocus delivers hefty dividends". News. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Vocus, M2 profits rise in final months before merger". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ^ a b Crozier, Ry (4 July 2016). "The juiciest opportunities from Vocus' $861m Nextgen buy". iTnews. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

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