Residents and businesses of the Trent Valley area in rural North Lincolnshire will be pleased to learn that they can now access wireless ( Wi-Fi ) broadband speeds of up to 10Mbps. The service has been deployed by a little known private UK ISP called LINPOP, which is backed by the international Tag Guard Ltd. security organisation.

LINPOP claims that its service covers rural villages and farming areas in a 10 mile radius from where their masts are located; Hemswell Cliff Business Park and the newly acquired Ingham Cliff site.


Prices tend to start at £29.95 per month for a 10Mbps (1Mbps upload) speed service, which is described as being "far superior" to BT and suitable for "general web-browsing, video and i-player streaming". The contention ratio of 150:1 appears to be high for such a service.

Oddly LINPOP claims that this contention is lower than the "over 250:1" used by "all other providers". Sadly the ISP does not offer any form of effective comparison, which makes their claim difficult to judge.

As usual an array of faster, more flexible and more expensive package choices are also available.