No, he is talking about GSM being a pan-european standard made companies and carriers compete on features and services rather than lock-in. Especially as GSM en

No, he is talking about GSM being a pan-european standard made companies and carriers compete on features and services rather than lock-in. Especially as GSM enforced the use of SIM cards that made it easy to move phones between carrier, or buy a phone outside of carrier offerings. Observe in contrast how Verizon is massive in USA thanks to being one of two (Sprint being the other) CDMA carrier. I keep seeing Americans lament that they want to pick up some new phone, but can't because they are grandfathered into some Verizon contract or other.