{"id":10924,"date":"2016-01-12T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:11:43","slug":"isp-satellite-internet-joins-welsh-access-broadband-cymru-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/isp-satellite-internet-joins-welsh-access-broadband-cymru-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"ISP Satellite Internet Joins Welsh Access Broadband Cymru Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The imaginatively named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/isp_list\/ISP_Detail_Satellite.php?Satellite-Internet-40\" target=\"_blank\">Satellite Internet<\/a>, which is a division of BeyonDSL and supplies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">Satellite<\/a> based broadband connectivity using the SES Techcom (ASTRA) platform, has today announced that it is an official registered supplier for the <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.wales\/topics\/science-and-technology\/digital\/infrastructure\/home-broadband\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Access Broadband Cymru<\/a> (ABC) subsidy scheme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ABC scheme has recently been made available to all homes and businesses across Wales (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/wales-uk-expands-flexibility-of-superfast-broadband-voucher-schemes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) that &#8220;<em>currently do not have a superfast connection<\/em>&#8221; (24Mbps+). Applicants for the vouchers, which are designed to help cover the cost of getting an alternative connection installed, are usually offered two levels of funding depending upon the Internet speed required. 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This allows it to offer a fast and robust connection to reach those areas where it is simply unfeasible to deploy any other internet delivery technology<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generally speaking most of Satellite Internet&#8217;s packages offer a headline broadband download speed of 20Mbps, although we&#8217;re told that a special 30Mbps package tier also exists for homes and businesses in Wales (unfortunately this doesn&#8217;t appear to be listed on their website).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imaginatively named Satellite Internet, which is a division of BeyonDSL and supplies Satellite based broadband connectivity using the SES Techcom (ASTRA) platform, has today announced that it is an official registered supplier for the Access Broadband Cymru (ABC) subsidy scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,71],"class_list":["post-10924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-satellite","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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