As 3G takes hold and the markets grow, the focus is moving away from the battles of the air interface wars as operators and vendors set out together in quest for the Holy Grail of 3G (and all subsequent comms generations) a single, universal standard that will permit true multi-dimensional convergence of markets, technologies, spectrum and networks.

It might sound a pious and perhaps impossible hope, but people are already beginning to think about it and to lay plans for a one-world telecoms future.