SkyMesh is an Australian telecommunications carrier and

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owned by Bigblu Broadband that provides NBN, Wireless and Satellite services, as well as legacy

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Satellite services. SkyMesh is headquartered in

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History

SkyMesh was founded in 2005 in

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to provide connectivity to consumers and businesses in remote parts of Australia.

Timeline

*2005 - SkyMesh founded. The company rolled out a fixed wireless network (FWA) in the

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and

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regions that provided 2 Mbit/s speeds. *2007 - Started offering IPSTAR satellite services that provided 4 Mbit/s speeds. *2011 - Began offering satellite services over nbn’s interim satellite network, with 6 Mbit/s services *2012 - Launched fixed wireless access (FWA) services over nbn’s network, providing 12 Mbit/s services, later upgraded to 25 Mbit/s. *2016 - Started offering satellite services over nbn’s Sky Muster satellite network, providing 25 Mbit/s services. SkyMesh was acquired by Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group (now Bigblu Broadband), along with Breiband.no for A$20.4 million. *2017 - Adele Corazzini is hired as the Sales Director. Adele would eventually move to the roll of Sales and Support Director. Aaron Payne is announced as the Sales Manager, and a year later as Operations Manager. *2018 - Sold fixed line business (approx. 11,000 customers) to Superloop for A$1.5m (US$1.1m). *2019- It had 55 Brisbane-based staff and around 35,000 customers. *2022 - SkyMesh acquires Clear Networks and the satellite customers from Uniti Group Limited, taking total customer numbers to 56,000. *2024 - SkyMesh begins offering business grade Starlink Services.

In the News

In 2017, satellite broadband operator Ipstar was ordered by an Australian court to pay back $5.2 million to SkyMesh against three separate claims. SkyMesh was Ipstar's second largest ISP at that time, using Ipstar's satellite to provide broadband connections to rural Australia. Ipstar appealed but the damages were upheld.

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* Companies based in Brisbane Internet service providers of Australia 2005 establishments in Australia {{Australia-company-stub