By the BBnet team · 20 August 2026 · 4 min read
People often ask whether BBnet is fibre or wireless. The answer is both: fibre runs to our base stations, and wireless carries the connection the last stretch to your home or office.
Fibre behind the scenes
Fibre links feed our base stations across our coverage areas. Fibre carries large amounts of data with very low latency, which gives our wireless network the capacity to stay fast at busy times.
Wireless to your door
From the base station, a carrier-grade wireless link reaches a small antenna at your premises. There's no trenching, so installation normally takes less than 2 hours, and it reaches homes and estates where laying fibre would be slow or costly.
When a dedicated fibre link makes sense
Some businesses, such as large offices, hotels and hospitals, need very high capacity to a single site. For them, we can extend a dedicated fibre link to the premises on request, surveyed and quoted individually.
Our advice
For most homes and businesses, our fibre-fed wireless service is the fastest way to get online. Check coverage at your address, and talk to us if your site needs a dedicated fibre link.