Following the conclusion of its Spring 6 tender, details have emerged of the startups that VodafoneThree is evaluating in its Tomorrow Street ‘accelerator program.’ An uncomfortable truth is that this is a pay-to-play program, with these startups hoping to get their foot in the door to eventually supply Vodafone directly. For Vodafone Group, and other MNOs that run similar schemes, this is a chance to examine the state of play in the market – getting a heads up on the latest technologies. However, per our usual rant, operators are generally institutionally incapable of implementing the latest advances themselves – relying on integrators and primary vendors to rip, replace, modernize and overhaul, in unhealthy toxic codependency. This means that startups have…