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The digital switchover process, though for most countries focussed on analogue terrestrial TV switch-off, has a much broader character stemming from television’s convergence with telecommunications and computer technology. From the start digital television sought to offer interactive services by linking television and telephony.
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Starks, M. (2013). Converged Communications. In: The Digital Television Revolution. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273352_8
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