OECD Digital Economy Papers
The OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) undertakes a wide range of activities to better understand how information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to sustainable economic growth and social well-being. The OECD Digital Economy Papers series covers a broad range of ICT-related issues and makes selected studies available to a wider readership. They include policy reports, which are officially declassified by an OECD Committee, and occasional working papers, which are meant to share early knowledge.
- ISSN: 20716826 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20716826
Trends in IP Technology: Their Impact on the Traditional Telephony Carrier
The impact of the Internet Protocol (IP) on telephony is anticipated to replace traditional voice services
with integrated voice and IP-based applications. The traditional telephony networks, though technically
and economically unsuited to supporting the integrated applications including messaging and e-commerce,
will nonetheless be leveraged by the ability to be interconnected and interoperate with IP networks.
The potential for leveraging IP-based applications together with the traditional telephony infrastructure
will likely create new markets for traditional telephony carriers, opening the opportunity for new alliances
and partnerships with content providers, broadcast networks and integrated network service providers to
enterprises. These new alliances will generate both opportunities for economic growth of a re-shaped
telecommunications industry as well as challenges to the traditional approaches to its governance and
regulation.
Specifically, there will be an increased need to harmonize the progression of international technical
standards for IP and the traditional telephony spheres as well as assessment of the implications of
regulation presently applied to telephony as voice and video services become increasingly integrated
within new IP-based applications delivered across a broad based communications infrastructure.
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