Swoop, a fixed wireless and wholesale infrastructure telco, revealed that it will launch mmWave-based services beginning next month. The first phase of the launch will be for the business areas of Osborne Park, Balcatta, and Malaga in Western Australia. The service is said to provide services of up to 1Gbps as well as coverage to approximately 5,000 businesses.

“We are also rolling out in Geelong and will be confirming further targeted areas in Victoria soon,” CEO Alex West said.

The goal of the telco is to offer mmWave in more of its coverage areas. Currently, the telco has more than 30,000 services. 15,500 of these services are fixed wireless. 

 “We are utilising beam forming technology which is designed to provide LoS style services in the vicinity of the node to provide high-bandwidth services to small pockets within our selected geographical areas, which enables us to re-use the spectrum capacity as we grow further into that area,” said West

“[For backhaul] we will be utilising a combination of our own microwave backhaul and existing fibre and, in certain cases, we will also be utilising assets from our recent fibre acquisitions.”

West also said that mmWave fixed wireless will give businesses access to very high-speed internet at “extremely affordable pricing”. 

Even if Swoop kept mum about its vendor partner, West confirmed that it was a partner the telco leveraged in production across its network “for many years”. West also said that the telco has been testing the mmWave kit for some time. 

“The radios themselves are housed externally, on the roofs of our customers. Not unlike NBN’s offering, we monitor the radio on the roof, but not the customer router,” he said.

Additionally, Swoop also revealed the takeoff of its new Swoop Channel, which brings the best elements of its wholesale, reseller, and business partner models. 

“Our channel model sits across our wholesale, reseller, and business partner models, where we work with and through partners,” said West. 

“Our direct model is purely inbound and is marketing-driven.”

Sean Clarke, chief revenue officer, also said that the move was the next step in offering a new standardised offering to its partners.

“The Swoop Channel provides our partners access to Swoop’s wide range of products in one simple portal, with the flexibility to transact how our partners want to,” he said. 

“With a dedicated national channel support team combined with our local account management model, we look forward to welcoming new partners to join the Swoop family.”