Ofcom pours cold water on fibre in the local loop
News Delivering a keynote speech at the CMA's annual conference on Wednesday, the regulator's chairman, Lord Currie said: "For customers who live too far from an exchange, technically this is a problem that could be solved by fibre.
[February 9, 2007, 12:28]
CMA faces loss of independence after 49 years
News The Communications Management Association (CMA) will, pending approval by its members, be swallowed by the British Computer Society (BCS), a much larger organisation which represents UK IT professionals.
[June 21, 2007, 14:36]
Nasa hacker appeals to Bush for pardon
News In the confession letter McKinnon gave assurances that he would plead guilty to offences under section 2 of the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) in an attempt to secure a UK jail term. Section 2 of the CMA deals with "unauthorised access with intent to...
[January 16, 2009, 12:45]
InfoSecurity kicks off with a bang (well, a loud puff)
Blog Those readers who have been around for as long as I have (sympathy, please), will remember the sad demise of the CMA conference in Brighton shortly after the dotcom crash, and then the sudden exit of the NEC-based Networks Telecom shortly afterwards.
[April 24, 2007, 17:36]
Two viewpoints on convergence
Talkback The telecoms industry, as well as the IT industry, took quite some bashing during the dotcom crash and unfortunately the CMA's conference (at least in the form it was in Brighton) perished at this time.
[August 1, 2007, 17:06]
Ofcom puts businesses centre stage
News Speaking at the annual conference of the Communications Management Association (CMA), a representative body for business comms users, Lord Currie said there was a widely held misconception that Ofcom was interested only in benefitting consumers.
[February 8, 2007, 7:52]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband to spur fibre rollout
News Comparatively sluggish fat pipes are damaging UK Plc, according to communications industry organisation the Communications Management Association (CMA), part of the British Computer Society. The CMA has called on the government to create a national...
[July 7, 2008, 8:45]
Is Sony BMG spreading malware?
News London's Wimbledon Magistrates Court recently ruled that a teenager accused of sending five million e-mails to an ex-employer with the probable aim of crashing the company's e-mail server — which it did — had not violated the UK's 1990 Computer...
[November 9, 2005, 13:55]
RSA Conference puts security in the spotlight
News Closer to home, the UK communications professionals will gather in London on Wednesday and Thursday for the annual CMA (Communications Management Association) conference. Security is likely to dominate the headlines this week, with the RSA...
[February 5, 2007, 11:48]
EC to make fibre 'recommendation'
News Speaking at the Communication Management Association's (CMA) annual conference in London on Wednesday, Ken Ducatel, a member of information commissioner Viviane Reding's cabinet, said the recommendation would be issued before the summer.
[February 27, 2008, 16:23]
