Liberalisation & Broadcasting

摘要

In no other industry is the impact of the convergence of different technologies more evident than in the communications sector. As a result of such convergence, the communications sector is undergoing a real revolution: the boundaries between telecommunications, mass media and computing are currently blurring, while a merger frenzy is sweeping the industry. In the US, for example, mega mergers between companies from old and new media, between infrastructure and content providers are taking place at an increasing rate -the most recent of these being the America-On-Line (AOL)-Time Warner deal. With this deregulation fever sweeping across the Western continents, it was only a matter of time before countries in the Asia-Pacific region tried to speed up their liberalisation programmes.