Sweeping the Internet into this regulatory regime will chill investment and growth. This issue will be joined wherever Internet protocol telephony begins to compete with traditional phone service. Broadband issues Telecommunications deregulation. The world is racing to deregulate monopoly public telephone networks. Deregulation will foster competition which will bring in new investments and services.
Digital customers are thirsty for bandwidth.
Regulations and standards should also make ISDN and DSL technologies available and affordable. Consumer electronics is moving from analog to digital. For example, the PC and TV technologies will converge. TV cables, once switched and upgraded, will provide bandwidth competition to telecommunications systems for both voice and data. Asia has been an outstanding producer of IT products.