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Aussie Broadband

Aussie Broadband is an Australian telecommunications and internet retail service provider. It was formed in 2008 after the amalgamation of Wideband Networks and Westvic Broadband.

Aussie Broadband is the fourth largest retail internet service provider in Australia. Aussie Broadband’s market share of NBN services sits at 8.9%, with the company totalling 780,259 broadband connections as of June 2024.

The company was established in Morwell in Victoria's Gippsland region. The company also has offices in Victoria (Dandenong South and Melbourne CBD), Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and remote staff scattered across Australia. Their customer service centres are based wholly in Australia, and they are one of the largest employers in the Latrobe Valley region.

Aussie Broadband operates their own fibre network that spans 1,721 kilometres in length. The Optus mobile network is used for the company’s mobile services. Aside from residential and business services, Aussie offers enterprise and government solutions, with over 12,886 enterprise and government services as of July 2024.

Aussie Broadband was formed with the amalgamation of Wideband Networks and Westvic Broadband, both of which had been trading since 2003. Wideband Networks was formed by now managing director Phillip Britt and former Chief Technical Officer John Reisinger. Both Britt and Reisinger recognised the need for more broadband availability in rural Australia, and created the company from the living room of Britt’s childhood home in Morwell, Victoria.

After the merger, Aussie Broadband focused on providing services to regional areas, such as Gippsland, Western Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In 2010, Aussie Broadband sold its satellite customer base to SkyMesh, the largest sale of a satellite customer base in Australia.

Aussie Broadband started providing NBN services as of 2017, ceasing third party reseller agreements. Group Managing Director Phil Britt declared that, to his knowledge, the company was the only internet service provider outside the “big four” (Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom, and Vocus Group) to do this.

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