I followed the given FT link ( http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f5d6128-4400-11df-9235-00144feab49a.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f5d6128-4400-11df-9235-00144feab4.

I followed the given FT link ( http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f5d6128-4400-11df-9235-00144feab49a.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f5d6128-4400-11df-9235-00144feab4... ), because I could not quite believe anyone responsible had said that. Seems I should really up my expectations. Those telco CEOs do seem to think they can charge twice for the same service. They bill their customers, and go to the regulators to charge Google/etc. While the regulators are looking into it, perhaps they could also look into things like the "4 euro/week" subscriptions to wallpapers and ringtones, plus the premium SMS charges for 1-in-30 drawings of movie tickets, etc. The telcos' cut of those interesting money-transfer operations may not be big enough.