Last update 07 September 2016 by Eric Malcomson.
There is a £100 Membership fee for
registration which will be refunded if we cannot provide a service.
As at Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:24:30 GMT -
521 people signed
up, 497 properties installed.
Abthorpe Broadband Association Limited - a not-for-profit limited by guarantee
company - has been delivering broadband to the communities of Abthorpe and
Slapton since 2003. The work
to deliver superfast broadband to the upper Tove Valley - from Foscote and Bradden to Wappenham and Weston - was completed at the end of March 2015, costing about £230,000 and we received
£108,658 in grant from the government and European Union's Rural Communities Broadband Fund towards these costs.
<< Swallows seem reluctant to fly south from our area these days. I wonder why?
Tove Valley Broadband or TVB as it has come to be known by, brings a fast 1,000Mbps symetrical fibre-optic service into the villages and distributes connections to properties by radio. To reach more out-of-the-way properties, farms and businesses we use radio pipelines. These are the most efficient, cost effective ways of delivering superfast broadband services - especially in a rural area.
TVB broadband is not restricted and importantly for 'cloud' users, our upload speed is the same as our download speed - in the core area, between 30 and 90Mbps
Superfast broadband is defined by the EU and UK governments as better than
30Mbps
The Superfast project is supported by
the Rural Development Programme for England, for which Defra is the Managing
Authority, part financed by The European Agricultural Fund for Rural
Development: Europe investing in rural areas.