Last update 26/02/2020 by Eric Malcomson.
There is a £100 Membership fee for registration which will be refunded if we cannot provide a service.
As at Thu, 09 Apr 2020 07:26:16 GMT - 673 people signed up, 669 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. 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, brings two fast 1,000Mbps symetrical fibre-optic services 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 in a rural area. Our service delivers 30 to 90Mbps download and upload and is unrestricted. We have undertaken to lay fibre-optic cables to our small business enterprises using the government's Gigabit Voucher Scheme to help with finance. More than 20 SMEs now get a 1,000Mbps symmetrical service. More information here The picture on the left shows a directional drilling machine boring under a road - a tube is pulled back through the bore and fibre-optic cables threaded through to take our services to more locations. However, to help things along, it is necessary for our team members to do a little dance!