Let's begin with the internet people. The internet people wanted convergence with the telephone and later television networks, because they wanted ubiquitous.

让我们从互联网人开始说起,互联网人想要和电话以及后来的,电视网络聚合，因为他们无所不在。

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So let's talk about convergence, convergence of the internet, telephone and television networks.

因此让我们讨论一下聚合，互联网,电话和电视网络的聚合。

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I think so. But video phone has been very hard to achieve. It's either been to be expensive, or too crowded, or can we use the internet to finally introduce video phone and this is different from video on-demand.

我也这么认为，但视频电话要成功很困难,它要么很贵，要么很拥堵，或者我们是否可以使用互联网引入视频电话,这与随需视频是不同的。

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And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

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