The received wisdom is that the mobile industry paid far too much in the UK, and in other European countries such as Germany. Critics point to the additional costs of actually building a network and marketing the exciting services that will be available. The European Commission is so worried about the possibility that the growth of mobile Internet services will be crippled by financial woes that it has suggested operators share networks, a suggestion that has so far been rejected by national governments.
Some analysts think so, but other groups are more confident.
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