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Welcome to the Abthorpe Broadband Association, which is a non-profit making community project aimed at bringing high-speed Internet connection to the rural area of Abthorpe.

After nearly three years of free broadband access, ABbA members are now being asked to pay £60 for a years connection - still much cheaper than any alternative.

If you are interested in this project and wish to know more, please e-mail us at abba@abthorpe.net

Abthorpe Broadband Association Ltd
ABbA was incorporated as a company limited by Guarantee on 9th July 2003. You can download the Memorandum and Articles of incorporation below:

Memorandum of Association

Articles of Association

The files are in pdf format, which require Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have this, click here to download.

Superfast Broadband
We have recently been considering how to improve the speed that you get through ABbA. You may have heard of superfast broadband and said that sounds great. How do I get it?

At the moment, the answer is you will not get it unless you live in a city or large urban area, but plans have been announced (and there is apparently going to be more in the Chancellor’s autumn statement tomorrow) for extra funding to extend provision of faster broadband and NCC have been successful in getting some of that money. At present details of how it will be spent are still being worked out and we will be meeting NCC again early in January to develop a plan for getting some money spent in our direction. If a fibre connection can be set up to the village, our wireless network can be used for the final connection and this helps implementation.

Faster broadband will enable you to watch i-Player and similar services as well as making web browsing much faster. It will also mean that we can keep up with all the advances in broadband for many years to come. ABbA’s membership has remained steady for some time, but the number of computers connected has risen and so has the data flowing through the system.

To help us put forward our case to the County Council, everyone can help by demonstrating support. NCC have information on their web site about Superfast Northampton shire at http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/environ/bigidea/pages/superfastnorthamptonshire.aspx and the online petition can be reached at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/96W7GJ7.

Please follow the link now and sign the petition.

Click here to apply to join ABbA, and enjoy the benefits of high-speed Internet connectivity.

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