These programs can't do much that the carrier couldn't do without your help: set up calls, send/receive SMS/USSD, sort of thing. It's not as if they ran on the

These programs can't do much that the carrier couldn't do without your help: set up calls, send/receive SMS/USSD, sort of thing. It's not as if they ran on the application processor as root or had DMA to the app processor's memory.