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Cherish those moments when you can't be reached by e-mail, mobile or pager while you can, because net experts are working on ways to ensure people can always get a message through to you.

Internet engineers are joining forces with phone regulators to develop a system that ties almost every communication network together.

If the system is widely adopted it will mean that as long as someone has one way of contacting you they will be able to reach you on any network, via any gadget.

One of the contradictions of our increasingly connected world is that the more networks and ways of communicating you are hooked into, the harder it can be to get a message through to you

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