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That will take years to be heeded, I'm sure. Even then, it's possible some companies will provide that access only to customers from the EU (given it removes the monopoly these companies hold on their services).

Forces them to make them interoperable in Europe. I’m sure they’ll drag their feet and then use some fuckery in the rest of the world to avoid it.

you mean providing archaic SMS feature nobody will use, but which will satisfy EU laws?