The UK computer sector is a key location for investment, and continues to outperform other European markets. The sector is a perpetual state of innovation-driven technology change against a background of growth in processing, storage and retrieval capacity demand and a propensity to falling hardware prices as soon as a new product is initially established and manufactures crank up the volume of output. The UK is one of the leading locations in Europe for telecommunications, and its liberal telecoms regime and access to leading edge technology has attracted the majority of telecommunications operators, service providers and manufacturers. The sector is undergoing its most important and enormous change in the last 100 years, as both fixed and mobile operators are making a move from circuit switched voice and data networks to an all IP network. As a result, major upgrades in networks and services have lead to large investment programmes, providing huge opportunities for UK companies to develop and deliver a wide range of new technology both at home and overseas.