ABSTRACT
Much of the discussion about the regulatory implications of convergence is characterised by differing forms of determinism which assume that consumer behaviour will be led by technological change and that regulation should follow suit. At its most extreme this view asserts that if communications technologies converge, then there must be a converged regulatory framework across the communications sector; if digitization makes content technically interchangeable then it too should ail be regulated in the same way; and that if new digital services are capable of crossing national boundaries then it follows that regulation must move from the national to the international level.
