Last update 24 May 2018 by Eric Malcomson.
There is a £100 Membership fee for registration which will be refunded if we cannot provide a service.
As at Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:24:33 GMT - 652 people signed up, 640 properties installed.
14/06/2018 : TVB have introduced a Support Ticket System to better audit our help line and any contact you have with us.
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.
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.
This picture shows two of our intrepid volunteers reeling out the 12-core armoured fibre-optic cable for a recent extension to our infrastructure.
TVB broadband service 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.If you are seeking ultrafast broadband - up to 1000Mbps - we can deliver fiber-optic services to your premises but to assess the process and the costs, you will need to look at this information and contact us with your details.
GDPR - to look at how TVB handle your personal data, refer here.
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.