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Following on the heels of a time of crisis and doubt,the year gone marked the onset of widespread broadband internet access in a great many countries.This in turn has led to a stunning rise in uses (e-commerce,instant messaging,blogs), to a new generation of consumer electronics products (flat screens,video players equipped with a hard drive,MP3 players...), to the launch of 3rd generation mobile services on leading markets,and to a series of announcements from the TV sector (digital terrestrial TV,ADSL TV, pioneer trials of mobile TV,HDTV). These innovations trigger a host of questions,as they are coming to shake up all of the industries involved - erasing the traditional dividing lines between players from the telecom,computer and consumer electronics sectors,between TV and music... and further complicated by the growing prominence of new intermediaries like internet search engines.
How will win-win models between content and network players be organised? What new consumption patterns will take hold? Will the mobile sector manage to maintain healthy growth rates when having to contend with,in part,alternative infrastructures (Wi-Fi and Wi-Max), and with the emergence of VoIP and virtual operators? Will Open Source software play a central role in businesses' future applications platforms? What role will Europe have in the DigiWorld, facing off against the United States, Japan and South Korea, and with the rising ambitions of China and even India? |
