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Veitch Speaks: Let's stay together in 1999
News If there is a single word that will define 1999 in IT it will be convergence - and this time it will be more than jargon. Convergence is one of those God-awful words that people who call themselves other God-awful things like futurologists and...
[January 9, 1999, 5:27]
Industry confused over role of Ofcom
News It's a bridge too far because it suffers from looking at the digital world which is technically a convergent world, and applies this technological convergence to market logic. The much-awaited communications White Paper, published in the House of...
[December 14, 2000, 8:39]
NCC Vs NBC in the emerging convergence Regulation in Nigeria
Blog Since the movement of the convergence seems and is from telecommunications sectors,it will be more productive and more visionary to allow the telecommunications regulator to midwife the emerging convergence regulator.
[May 7, 2008, 10:53]
Convergence can be a marriage of inconvenience
News HomeChoice, the television-on-demand service that runs on British Telecommunications' (quote: BT) high-speed data lines, has been cited as a prime example of convergence in the media and communications industries.
[December 15, 2000, 5:30]
Profiting From Convergence: Defining Growth Paths for Telecom Service
White Papers Internal and external forces of convergence are taking hold of the telecommunications industry. Convergence of local and national voice services dramatically changed the telecom landscape, as competition flourished.
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
Convergence will make IT departments 'service brokers'
News The convergence of IT and telecoms means IT departments will have to become service brokers "to justify their continued value to the enterprise", according to a report published by analysts at Forrester this week.
[July 26, 2006, 15:40]
EMT Goes for Integrated Service Assurance: Converged IT and Telco Monitoring Boost Management Efficiency
White Papers This goal was achieved through the convergence of telecommunications and IT management, supported and enabled by HP OpenView. EMT, Estonia's incumbent mobile operator, has successfully completed the first phase of its Integrated Service Assurance...
[March 9, 2006, 23:00]
Data on 3G: an Introduction to the Third Generation
White Papers The telecommunications world is changing as the trends of media convergence, industry consolidation, Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies and mobile communications collide into one. The Third Generation of mobile communications will...
[September 25, 2009, 3:04]
BT Fusion gets Wi-Fi upgrade
News The idea of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services such as Fusion is that, when the mobile handset is in the office or home and thus sufficiently close to the user's broadband connection, it will route calls through that connection rather than...
[December 14, 2006, 12:49]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News To cope with accelerating convergence between different broadcasting media and telecommunications technology, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced the creation of Ofcom Tuesday, a new body that will combine the work of media, radio...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
Microsoft and Cisco divided over unified comms
News Bamforth added that, because of the convergence of IT and telecommunications, telephony vendors need to offer more than just PBXs to survive. Unified communications is an evolution of voice/data convergence that aims to bring together voice, data...
[October 16, 2007, 16:23]
Google CEO wants techies to teach governments
News His speech meandered from his memories of the mainframe age to the growing importance of targeted advertising as a business model to his personal belief, which he mentioned more than once, that the so-called convergence of media will not...
[October 18, 2006, 9:05]
VeriSign poised to win Net ID struggle
News VeriSign "is focused on convergence" of telecommunications and computer infrastructure, said David Fraley, an analyst with industry consultants Gartner Dataquest. The company is looking to expand its presence in the still-young convergence between...
[September 28, 2001, 9:28]
3G debt threatens future of telecommunications
News Allen was speaking in London at Convergence 2000, a day-long forum organised by the Global Communications Society. European telecommunications companies are facing a new crisis that threatens to bring them to their knees within two years, stifling...
[November 15, 2000, 14:51]
Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News Technologies such as VoIP and the trend towards voice and data convergence have cost and flexibility benefits for businesses, but they also expose vital telecommunications networks to traditional forms of Internet attack, such as worms and viruses...
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
Intel's Barrett: PC market on the mend
News What our industry has in front of it is the build-out of the Internet and the convergence of communications and computing," Barrett said, adding that the main challenge facing the industry is "how do we give the end user more reason to use our...
[February 26, 2002, 9:01]
Ira Magaziner: U.S. at odds with EU Net privacy directive
News In order to hasten the convergence of telecommunications, broadcast and Internet services, and to drive greater bandwidth to the home, "The best thing to do would be to just let market competition take over," Magaziner said.
[August 26, 1998, 6:44]
BT Fusion: watershed or washout?
News Convergence has great promise for telecommunications, but BT's new Fusion handset leaves most of that potential untouched Convergence: One handset is better than two BT's convergence con-Fusion BT's Bluephone must be convergence without the con
[June 15, 2005, 15:50]
Multiprotocol label switching makes for mainstream
News Even Sprint, which has always maintained that its pure IP backbone is much simpler than MPLS, is considering MPLS for convergence, although the company cautioned that it is still reviewing its options.
[February 9, 2004, 14:30]
Survey: Tech execs retrenching
News One of the beliefs executives are discarding, said Williamson, is the idea of an all-encompassing convergence of media, telecommunications and computers. IT, telecommunications and media companies are bracing for further industry fallout and doing...
[December 5, 2002, 13:43]
