Important information about subscriptions

Since service commenced we have kept the monthly subscription at £10 inclusive of VAT. Reeth Rural Radio Net's grant aid ceases on 31 March 2007 and so we have decided to increase the monthly subscription to £11.75 (£10 + VAT). We hope you will understand our reason for so doing. Please instruct your bank to alter the monthly standing order payment to £11.75, with effect from the first payment due after 31 March 2007.

Thank you for supporting our community not for profit venture. In the coming year we hope to add additional functionality to the network and take the first steps to creating an online community in our dales.

Dangerous spam warning: please note that there is a lot of dangerous unsolicited email ("spam") in circulation at present. Some have attachments they suggest you open which are viruses ("malware"), some purport to be from high street banks, some appear to be rejected/ bounced messages, some are clever enough to use "swaledale.org technical support team" as their signature! (By the way, these are not unique to our network - they are being received by thousands of people all around the country - but we would like our customers to be educated and safe.)

Please never click on links from unsolicited emails which request login details or other personnal information and never open attachments from such emails. Delete the message and also remove it from any recycle bin you may have in your email client. Also please ensure you have a up-to-date virus checker installed.

We will only ever contact you via email with very specific information to do with our services, such as service outages and newsletters, and we will always have "Reeth Rural Radio Net" somewhere in the mail. We will not send you unsolicited mail with attachments or requests to click links to login or provide other personnal information.

You can report phishing attacks to the Anti Phishing Working Group.

Reeth Rural Radio Net has now been successfully operating in Reeth since November 2004, offering a fast, "always on", internet service. We are already expanding up Swaledale and Arkengarthdale - if you live in Low Row or Langthwaite we will be very happy to provide a free survey. Please fill in your details on the online sign up form and we will organise a visit.

Sign-up here for broadband for the Dale

Why bother supporting a local wireless network anyway?

  • It's cheap! And as more people get involved we will make it faster and therefore even better value. We will always try to provide the best value service available in the area.
  • It is a locally run, not for profit, company and therefore provides a local investment which will endeavour to be highly responsive to local needs (such as helping local schools, businesses and community organisations get online). We look on this as the equivalent of building a locally owned, virtual motorway into the two dales. Why pay BT to run a toll road that doesn't offer long term cost savings and benefits to the local community!?
  • You'll be helping the whole dale get online. We endeavour to get to the far-flung reaches of the two dales as soon as possible, which will mean a radical change in the communications services available to them.
  • You'll get a very personal email address. You can choose between a 'swaledale.org' or 'arkengarthdale.org' email address.
  • No phone line required! which means once it's up and running it should be more reliable than the phone line services
  • Secure and private. The local network provides greater protection from external problems such as viruses and hackers (it is much more secure than a standard dial-up). No users of the network can "see" each other's computers or traffic. We will also be able to provide additional security (Virtual Private Networks) for businesses in the near future.
  • Local skills. The practical knowledge learned and shared at many levels locally will enable the local community and hopefully other local communities for the future
  • Tourism services. Business (e.g. cafés/ pubs/ caravan parks/ hotels/ post office) will be able to offer temporary wireless internet passes to visitors.
  • The future - free local phone calls! Once the basic internet service is in place there are additional possibilities such as free telephony services and wireless phones, providing free calls to anyone else on the network (useful when you're out on the farm!). Who knows, even local video phones!