Convergence of telecoms and audiovisual media

Convergence has become a major trend in ICT. After the convergence of fixed and mobile telecoms services, the next trend is the convergence of telecoms and audiovisual media.

A new industry-driven European initiative called Networked and Electronic Media, NEM, has been established, which intends to promote this convergence. NEM was officially launched as a European Technology Platform in Brussels on 29 June. The participating companies like Thomson, Alcatel, France Telecom, and the BBC consider networked and electronic media to be a new industry sector with huge growth prospects.

Website of NEM, the Networked and Electronic Media Platform