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NBN Co is a government-owned wholesaler.
NBN Co is exploring options for its legacy satellite assets once the transition to Amazon Leo is finalized.
NBN Co launched an industry consultation on wholesale pricing for its upcoming residential Low Earth Orbit satellite service powered by Amazon Leo on February 19, 2026.
NBN Co proposes a 50/10 Mbps LEO plan to be offered to retailers at a wholesale price of $35.84 per month.
NBN Co designed the Amazon Leo LEO service to deliver "city-fast" broadband to the most remote areas of Australia.
NBN Co intends to lock in regional customers before a full-scale migration from the Sky Muster geostationary fleet begins later in 2026.
NBN Co’s transition to Amazon Leo positions the company to compete directly with SpaceX’s Starlink in the Australian LEO market.
NBN Co partnered with Amazon for Amazon Leo in an agreement first announced in August 2025.
NBN installed 12 satellite dishes at evacuation centers in parts of Australia impacted by bush fires to provide free Wi‑Fi.
NBN launched Sky Muster Plus on 2019-08-11 as an option for homes and businesses.
In flight, the shipset provides access to Ka-band satellites participating in Viasat’s global network, including WildBlue-1, Anik-F2, ViaSat-1, ViaSat-2, KA-SAT, and nbn’s SkyMuster I and II.
The Australian government has not committed to privatizing NBN Co following an unsolicited offer from Telstra to eventually buy the public telecommunications company.
NBN is allowing Viasat to use the Ka-band Sky Muster satellites to provide inflight Wi-Fi to Qantas Airways.
An NBN executive estimated that the business service will use 15 percent of the capacity on the Sky Muster Ka-band satellite system.
The NBN business service will use NBN ground infrastructure, including the company’s nine ground stations.
Establishing Melbourne as ViaSat’s Asia-Pacific headquarters is intended to enable ViaSat to build on commitments to existing customers including nbn™ and Qantas.
Qantas, ViaSat, and nbn conducted in-flight Wi-Fi tests on the trial aircraft in preparation to launch a production system later in 2017.
On 2017-04-07 Qantas, working with ViaSat Inc. and nbn, turned on fast, free, gate-to-gate in-flight Wi-Fi on a ViaSat-equipped Boeing 737-800 aircraft.