New Name For North Georgia Network

The North Georgia Network is changing its name.

From now, the North Georgia Network will be known simply as NGN.

Started in 2009, NGN has been a member-owned cooperative operating over 1,600 miles of fiber optic infrastructure in Georgia that provides high-speed broadband connectivity.

The company said that as the network evolves to include new communities in other portions of the state as well as bordering states in the Southeast, the name is evolving too.

Since the network’s launch, NGN said nearly 8,500 of Blue Ridge Mountain EMC and Habersham EMC’s electric customers have received high-speed internet service over the NGN network and that number continues to grow each week.

NGN President and CEO Paul Belk said that although the company will be using a new name, it will continue to offer the same services to its existing members that it always has, while connecting new regions through NGN’s model of partnering with member-owned utility cooperatives and other public entities.