Am I reading this wrong? It sounds like the article is complaining about decreasing, not zero or negative, profits from iPhone users, and wondering how carriers can maintain fat profits like the ones they get from text messaging. I'm not inclined to feel particularly bad about competition and commoditization making the telecom market more efficient.
Considering that these same companies (AT&T and Verizon for instance) haven't figured out how to properly price and build out the hardwired data network, it shouldn't be a surprise that they're having issues with where wireless is going.
They could save tremendous bandwidth if safari could manage to keep the pages in memory. It seems to want to reload the page whenever I switch between tabs.