New trends, new opportunities

摘要

This issue of ITU News looks at the 2007 session of the Council, universal access, and the latest trends in telecommunications. One of these trends is the move to next-generation networksrn(NGN), which heralds the shift from a "one network, one service" approach, to the delivery of many services over a single network based on the Internet protocol (IP). Migration to NGN is building on the expansion of broadband networks, the rise of voice over IP (VoIP), convergence of fixed and mobile telephony, and IP television (IPTV).