A branch of the company; BigAir Community Broadband, manages residential style internet services provided to student accommodation and mining camps across Australia.
The acquisition of this wholesale fixed wireless point-to-point business gave BigAir new base stations in the major cities.
In July 2010 BigAir announced it had acquired the assets and customer base of the wholesale broadband division of Star-Tech Communications.
AccessPlus provided managed Internet services to tertiary student accommodation at more than 20 sites across Australia.
[12] BigAir Community Broadband was formed from the acquisition of both StarTech Communications and AccessPlus in 2010 and 2011, and leverages existing BigAir fixed wireless infrastructure to service multi-tenanted properties including mining camps,[13] retirement villages and higher education student housing providers including CLV,[14] Unilodge[15] and Urbanest[16] covering 30,000 rooms[9] BigAir also manages a number of free access wireless hotspot networks in Australia.