Mark Roberts of Montgomery Securities, a San Francisco investment bank, points out that the one soon to occur in the Internet will be particularly savage because it depends on the fickle and cut-throat consumer market (businesses such as mobile telephones and fax machines began in the corporate market).

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Our Web tone idea is no different from the phone network -- you have mobile phones, home phones, fax machines and modems, they all use the same network.

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Often this meant learning to exploit the latest laptop, cell phone, fax, Internet and other computer and communications technologies that make possible the mobile economy.

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