Definition of CONVERGENCE

(1) Convergence is the term used to describe the merging of wired and wireless communications technologies to allow content providers to deliver interactive broadcast and narrow cast programming to mobile and fixed multimedia capable client based `transceivers'. Providers will in fact become multi channel broadcasters offering multiple content specific programming in both 'traditional' broadcast 'one to many' format plus 'on demand', 'pay per view' 'one to one' narrow cast format to an individual party. In practical or consumer terms, convergence is used to describe the merging of the telephone, fax, radio, television, games machine and the personal computer to provide a 'one stop shop' device for both business and home entertainment communications.(2) The combining of different forms of electronic technology, such as data processing and word processing converging into information processing.