NGA
RSS NGABT's 21CN 'a threat to next-gen broadband'
News McArthur said while next-generation access (NGA) gets plenty of media and government attention - communications minister Lord Carter's Digital Britain interim report includes a provision for universal broadband access by... [25 Feb 2009]
Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo NGA in the UK: Broadband Britain isn't doing too badly after all when it comes to moving towards next-generation broadband, according to a report from Ofcom advisory group the Communications Consumer Panel (CCP). [27 Jan 2009]
PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
News The review said: "It is difficult to conclude that the UK is currently disadvantaged by the lack of NGA [next generation access, such as fibre]. This review has certainly found no application essential to public welfare... [05 Jan 2009]
Broadband speeds going down toilet without fibre
News Anthony Walker, CEO of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, told delegates at the eForum: "We're not going to get one single monolithic NGA [next generation access]. The UK needs to get its act together over next generation... [06 Nov 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News NGA, the focus of Caio's report, is a term used for the technology that gets that high-speed connectivity from the exchange to the customer's premises - also known as the 'last mile'. These steps include the creation of... [12 Sep 2008]
£29bn bill for fibre to every UK home
News This last mile issue is referred to as 'next generation access' (NGA). The report also predicts there will be much greater cost associated with building out NGA in rural areas, and other areas of lower... [08 Sep 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News Although the backbone of the UK's broadband infrastructure is being upgraded to fibre, the current impasse over the provision of fibre access - or next-generation access (NGA) - to homes and businesses is preventing such... [07 Jul 2008]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs do not solve the problem of legacy copper wiring at street level, from exchanges to cabinets and homes - an issue known as next... [22 Nov 2007]
Ofcom consults on next generation access
News That takes care of the so-called "backbone" of the UK's broadband infrastructure but next-generation access (NGA, or the local loop) is another matter entirely. The Broadband Stakeholder Group, an industry lobbying... [27 Sep 2007]
Microsoft's 'eye in the sky' to watch over national security?
News Microsoft is collaborating with the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a division of the Department of Defense, on its Virtual Earth technology. The NGA wants to use the Virtual Earth... [19 May 2006]
Gates sparks security alert
News Microsoft also wrote a check for $150,000 to be an "emerald" sponsor of the NGA meeting, which about 30 governors attended. Among the NGA meeting attendees: Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and... [30 Jul 2004]
