"Chris Malcolm" <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:50k1q0F1f9uoqU4@mid.individual.net...

> The mobile telcos aren't usually keen on devices with enough
> communications flexibility to be able to easily find cheaper
> connections than the ones your telco offers you. Not only do
> increasing numbers of people have free wifi at work and home, but it's
> becoming increasingly easy to find it in the streets.

Precisely, and that's why they'll need to shift gear. Their mickey mouse
applications were good at the times of GPRS, when real wireless broadband
wasn't so widespread. But with the latest progress in that area and the soon
to come user awareness, they better act quickly (though my opinion is that
they all have their guns ready and are just delaying the launch of new
technologies as much as possible, milking consumers as much as they can).