I agree except that when you say "in China", what you actually mean is "in most of the world". You see, when we have less hegemonic mobile network operators (due basically to their inability to hunt down and nail people who reneg on long term phone contracts), we have a more heterogeneous system. In the end, everyone benefits. What we need is less authority, more internet.

Hopefully GSM will die soon and we can all use some kind of public, tor-rerouted, bandwidth-metered cryptophones over wifi. I'm sure the NSA will love that.