[Mark David]

It will be years before the much-hyped blending of services that run seamlessly over both fixed and cell phone networks will allow consumers to communicate freely on any device, industry executives say. Operators have trouble finding customers for combined deals offering fixed and mobile services, which are complicated to set up and lack choice in handsets, industry executives said at a convergence conference in Amsterdam that runs until Thursday. Germany's Deutsche Telekom this year scrapped its "T-One" product that allowed consumers to use a single device for cheap calls over a fixed line at home and its mobile network when away. It attracted only a few thousand users.

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