The consumer electronics and communications services sectors have undergone astonishing change over the past decade. In just eight years, digital television has attained penetration levels that analogue services took 40 years to reach; broadband, wireless networks and interactive TV have come from nowhere to be mainstream technologies. Further digitisation and faster, lower-cost Next-generation Networks are now set to increase the pace of change even further.

This report explores this idea by testing the hypothesis that: “pressure on leisure time and living space is creating demand for converged technology that will soon make single-function devices a thing of the past.”