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market in May 2015. At this time it had approximately 10,000 customers, which has since grown through a mixture of organic and inorganic growth (through acquisitions) to approximately 120,000 customers. In 2018 it had revenues of £55 million (up 8%), but recorded a pre-tax loss of £9.5 million.
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Exchange (LSE) AIM
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Broadband Plc's European offering re-branded as Europasat in May reflecting multi-network, independent proposition (maximum speeds of 20 Mbit/s download, 6 Mbit/s
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Superloop for A$ 1.5m (US$ 1.1m)
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295:- BBB produce hardware to secure networks and delivers dedicated satellite broadband for Government and Military use and security surveillance connectivity in remote areas.
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Broadband Plc trades as bigblu and offers satellite broadband via the Tooway satellite platform to 120,000 customers across a number of different markets:
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