I believe that Apple has already at least partly done that with the coming of the iPhone in 2007. I would not call it a 100% victory, but compared to how much control the mobile carriers had before then, its a huge change.
US carriers were and still are screwing Americans over. European carriers were much open and until I read about the US mobile industry, I had no idea that a carrier can block you to do anything you want with your phone.
> I had no idea that a carrier can block you to do anything you want with your phone.
Depends on the carrier. T-Mobile (aka Deutsch Telcom, quite European) lets you do anything you like; unfortunately it's looking like they won't exist in the US a year from now.
