Dennis Strigl, president and chief executive of Verizon speaking at a conference in London on Thursday urged supporters of two competing technologies (WCDMA and CDMA2000) for 3G services to work together to ensure customers could use a single type of handset worldwide.

"There's enough engineering expertise around the world to bring together the two competing camps,'' he said and added, "They should be able together to deliver what the customer needs and what the operator needs,'' he said.

Verizon is upgrading its network with interim technologies compatible with CDMA2000, supplied by Qualcomm.

But British mobile giant Vodafone, which owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, plans to build 3G networks in Europe and Asia using WCDMA.

The different tracks have sparked reports of a rift between Vodafone and Verizon's 55 percent shareholder -- local U.S. phone company Verizon Communications. Both companies have denied such a rift.

He said he had heard of possible solutions.

``A handset that gives customers the capability for roaming worldwide may be the short-term solution, the very short-term. The long-term solution is to give our customers the capability in the network (to allow roaming),'' he said.

A single standard is important for Vodafone, because it wants to increase its purchasing power by striking global deals with phone manufacturers.

Vodafone has said that the interim technologies used by Verizon Wireless did not commit the U.S. operator to a specific 3G transmission standard.

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