BigAir flaunts new wireless broadband service

Internet service provider BigAir Australia has joined the broadband pricing war with its new home broadband service of 1Mbps speed on a competitive monthly fee compared to the major players.

BigAir claims its home broadband service is four times as fast and includes more than double the download capacity for the same price as most other AU$29.95 ADSL connections.

BigAir joint managing director, Jason Ashton said the BigAir service is available in many 'broadband black holes' where ADSL and cable services are not -- estimated at around 30 percent of homes across Sydney.

"We are in the unique position of being able to provide Australia's most advanced broadband service to the residential market as we own and operate our own independent network. We offer a minimum of 1 Mbps as our entry-level product as we do not believe that 256 kbps or 512 kbps delivers a 'real' broadband experience. In addition our service is symmetric offering upload speeds at 1 Mbps making it suitable for more demanding applications such as video conferencing. It's about time consumers were given a real broadband option," Ashton said.

The BigAir home broadband starter plan offers speeds of 1 Mbps and includes 500MB of download capacity for AU$29.95 per month. For the same monthly price, Telstra offers speeds of 256 kbps and 200MB download capacity while Optus offers 256 kbps speed and 200MB download capacity for AU$49.95.

Ashton said BigAir is able to offer competitive and flexible broadband services as the company's wireless network completely bypasses the Telstra local loop.

Since launching earlier this year, BigAir has been expanding its network across Sydney, offering wireless broadband services to homes and small and medium sized businesses, along with offering its "enterprise grade" high-capacity services to larger businesses.

BigAir's business-grade services offer speeds up to 10 Mbps and is planning to offer speeds up to 100 Mbps in the near future.

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Talkback 3 comments

    Great effort with your wireles ...Anonymous -- 09/09/04

    Great effort with your wireless service.
    When will you be available in Geelong?

    So cool it shows how much Optu ...Anonymous -- 01/10/04

    So cool it shows how much Optus & Telstra both rip us off. The problems of a monopoly called Telstra. Hopefully they will be forced to provide reasonable access whilst availing it for a reasonable cost & not the outright theft we suffer from right now. Good on BigAir!!!

    Please come to Hobart soon.

    Big Air Sucks! Anonymous -- 19/02/08

    Big Air SUCKS. Do not get it. Customer service is poor, speed tests show that speed is far less than 512 kbps. and i live in the CBD! so much for offering the 'broadband experience'.

    PLUS you have to log in every single time you want to use the internet, and log in portal is highly incompatible with PCs/Windows operating systems.

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