I will rightly be accused of taking things out of context with what I’m about to say, but I’d be thrown out of the Blogger's Union if I did anything else.

Over on our sister site TechRadar, the ever-excellent Dan Grabham has an interview with Andy Lees, senior vice-president of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business, basically discussing Windows Mobile and its competitors. [*Cough* iPhone *cough* etc] And when asked about the advantage that Microsoft’s relationship with mobile operators brings, Lees says:

One of the things that we can do slightly differently to Apple and Google is that they have what I think of as the 'over the top' scenario - they're not doing anything to enhance the mobile operator's ability to create data plans.
They just want the operator to create the '$30 all you can eat' data plan - what the number is varies around the world. Our approach is to be very operator friendly, so we offer tiered services they can use to have different price plans.

"Our approach is to be very operator friendly"? What about the end users, dude?