Welcome to life working with telcos. Why are European operators stumbling badly in data offerings beyond SMS?

They've got developer forums and SDKs but do they have reasonable integration, reasonable commercial agreements or staff that get it? No. There is not much innovation coming out of the world of voice and GSM operators and it's poor. The marketplace for developers and application providers is limited and controlled by operators who **just don't get it**. And, this is only with 2G.

3G depends on a massive uptake of data useage as mobile voice becomes commoditised. Nonetheless, the pricing for data in 2G is so unrealistic that you would have thought that it was as valuable as immediate voice.

Danger, an innovator and doing great stuff, is, like many, many innovators in the mobile/wireless space, being brought to its knees and will probably go under like the others. The operators and their shareholders will continue to moan about how they can't get their ARPUs and data useage up while developers will turn their backs on the operators and see the welcoming arms of WiFi.

Meanwhile, the operators will continue to pretend that they are portal based broadcasters and provide useless data services to their customers. Fools.