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Mon 07 Jul 2007Converge and conquerHard times are leading the telecom sector to invest in a new way forward.FROM THE FLUSH TIMES of the mid 1990s, where it saw money pouring into its coffers, thanks to dominant fixed-line businesses and per-minute internet billing, to the more recent era, when technologies such as WAP and 3G have failed to deliver on their promise and lost the sector serious amounts of cash, the telecoms industry has certainly been a hive of activity.