Convergence policy needed

The Indian telecom industry urged the government to bring out a comprehensive convergence policy to deal with changing technology, says Sify.

At the Global Telecom Summit organised by Assocham, TV Ramachandran, chairman, ITU Regional Working Group for Private Sector issues said, "New convergence policy is due for long, as the government has rolled out only its policy initiatives on issues relating to convergence in bits and pieces. Likewise, the policy for content access and IPTV are yet to be framed."

The government had earlier proposed a convergence law to address issues related to overlapping of telecom and broadcasting sectors.

Samsung Electronics held the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum at the Westin Taipei Hotel, highlighting the theme of Content Convergence and Live Connection, states ZDNet Korea.

More than 1 000 industry professionals including Samsung business partners and customers from handset, PDA and original design manufacturers in Taiwan attended the event which highlighted major mobile trends and shared insight on future mobile technologies.

New products displayed included the world's fastest, 2.5-inch, 256GB multi-level cell based solid state drive, a unique single-chip mobile TV system-on-chip integrating a channel decoder with radio frequency compliant to major geographical broadcast standards, and a low-power 800MHz mobile application processor.

Arab Advisors Group's Fifth Annual Media and Telecommunications Convergence Conference 2008 will be held on 2 and 3 June 2008 in Amman, Jordan, reports Al Bawaba.

The organisers have increased the conference maximum capacity to 450 delegates for the conference.

Four hundred senior delegates have already registered to attend the conference representing over 135 regional and global operators, vendors, government agencies, banks, and professional services companies from over 21 countries around the world.