For most of the last decade, the carriers have called the shots. Likened to "Soviet ministries" by Walt Mossberg, carriers had full control of their environment, from billing to customer service to device availability. There were four carriers and each competed on different platforms but generally handset manufacturers went to them, hat in hand, and showed off a crop of new devices. Like mad Caligula, the carriers would nod or give the thumbs down and go back to charging us $10 for texts overseas. The groveling, in many cases, was quite unbecoming of international CE firms but grovel they did, asking that their feature phones be given access to America's lucrative cellular market.
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