Honestly yes, this is likely to happen, because the alternative of the telecoms making their own android phones that use their own ad networks and web search an

Honestly yes, this is likely to happen, because the alternative of the telecoms making their own android phones that use their own ad networks and web search and bleeding out the internet giants with pure market power is too much of an existential threat without their own carrier for negotiation purposes. Then we would have massive cash-out days for all the holders of carrier companies. Maybe these new subsidiaries of the frightful 5 would actually compete with each other? Or the ones that don't stumble in the transition at least. But of course we could have a totally different regulatory environment in 4 years.