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What is Next Generation Access Network (NGA)

Chapter 4
Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business
Not fully copper-based access network, capable of providing broadband access services with sustained bandwidths clearly higher than those available with fully copper-based access networks.
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Next Generation Access Networks and their Regulatory Implications
Ricardo Gonçalves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), Portugal) and Álvaro Nascimento (Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), Portugal)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-194-0.ch004
Abstract
The deployment of Next Generation Access networks (NGAs) is likely to have a significant impact on the telecommunications’ value chain and, consequently, on the necessary regulatory remedies. In particular, unlike existing telephone networks, NGAs present regulators with a dilemma, in so far as the possibility of regulatory intervention after network deployment (negatively) affects investment incentives for such a deployment. We review the current discussion surrounding NGAs and discuss some of the main regulatory challenges it presents.
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