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HARDWARE - MOBILE DEVICES Words: Janet Paterson and Paul Hartley WHO'S WHO Worldwide converged mobile device market continues to surge ahead, says IDC.

CONVERGENCE – TECHIE NAVEL GAZING OR REALLY SPECIAL ?

It’s not whether you have convergence that’s important; it’s what you do with it that counts.

Convergence

Dave Gale

CONVERGENCE AND REGULATION KEY TO EXPANDING THE SP MODEL

HILLEL SHROCK Business solutions director, Internet Solutions In much the same way as Internet Solutions (IS) has chosen to become a service provider offering converged services that are quite different to its original mandate, so its business solutions director, Hillel Shrock, could be said to have ‘converged’ his original career path – which was far removed from the ICT arena – with the job he now performs at IS.

Convergence

Hillel Shrock

CONVERGENCE IS A SLOW AND GRADUAL PROCESS

Mike Brierley CEO: MTN Network Solutions While the local ICT industry talks a lot of big talk about convergence, it is actually a slow process, meaning that the changes in the market will be very gradual.

Convergence

Mike Brierley

CONVERGENCE CONVERSATIONS

wwwwwwwconvergence globally: Professor Peter Cochrane and Professor Andrew Odlyzko.

Convergence

Peter Cochrane

CONVERGENCE IN CONTEXT

Convergence is often perceived as a complex matter, yet there are only two technologies that make convergence possible: the digitisation of information, and the advent of the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).

Convergence

Janet Paterson

CONVERGENCE AS AN ENABLER

The network operator that wants to sustain revenue, from a global perspective, will have to become a broadband multimedia player.

Convergence

Paul Inglesby

BROADBAND SKYWAY FOR AFRICA

Sentech is an ICT pacesetter that delivers wireless broadband internet services and communications convergence solutions to Africa.

Broadband

Sentech

LESS REALLY IS MORE

Wireless As technology is increasingly driven by the demands of convergence, wireless is set to assume its position at centre stage, in a show detailing the merits of a truly symbiotic relationship.

Less

Pamela Weaver

Escaping communication clutter

Organisations today are searching for new ways in which to improve their business processes and productivity, increase agility and enhance network security.

Up Front

Graeme Scala

The great convergence sideshow

The industry is up in arms over planned convergence legislation that seems to want to regulate website publishing. Whether the fear is justified or not, the controversy obscures other major flaws in the Bill

In Front

Matthew Buckland

Cooking up a new flavour of network

Tomorrow`s networks will be about services and solutions. This is forcing vendors and service providers to look at the network in a new light. Has convergence finally arrived?

Special Features

Jason Norwood-Young

Convergence by command

The draft of the Convergence Bill is anything but the kind of law South Africa needs. Apart from inviting bureaucratic corruption, it specifies unnecessary licensing and price controls that are the opposite of “enabling” – which is what the legislation is supposed to be.

Bandwidth

Neil Emerick