http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22914853-23634...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22914853-23634,00.html

THEN again, perhaps old media such as free-to-air TV stations have no real future as advertisers pursue their lost viewers into cyberspace, or through those ubiquitous hand-held devices.

The Geoff Lord-backed ComTel is positioning for the convergence of mobile telephony and internet services, having just completed the $20 million purchase of the "permission marketing" group, Empowered Communications, for $20 million.

Empowered is an exponent of the new media which everyone in adland raves on about, but which no one has really been able to tap. The Seven Network is trying to do so by making a takeover bid for the listed Engin.

So what does CRITERION: Tim Boreham know that we don't?