As communications media converges, each market player has their own agenda for regulations. Dora Petranyi and Chris Watson review the key issues in the CEE

Until recently, telecommunications, information technology and broadcasting all operated independently in terms of the technology used, the information transmitted and the networks employed. Television, radio, telephones and computers were used for discrete purposes, and the services provided were regulated via separate laws, usually by different regulators, and with no obvious need for coherence between these separate laws and regulators.