What is Convergence?

Convergence refers to three key trends in the telecommunications sector:

• The combination of fixed and mobile telephony services. This is largely the result of competition which has followed privatisation and deregulation within the telecommunications sector. Services are now offered by more and more network operators worldwide.
   
• The combination of content and delivery. This applies for instance to cable television and telephone operators, who are adding interactive services like pay-per-view and cable-modem Internet services to more traditional activities.
   
• Convergence of classical voice and data communication. The growth in capacity of telecommunication networks is allowing a shift toward multi-media applications. Thus the growth of traditional data transfer is slowng, while emerging multi-media services are exploding.

Summarised from the Hungarian Communication Review, a supplement provided with Business Central Europe in May 2000.

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