To anthropomorphize the MNOs, there is a distinct whiff of the late stages of a dying empire about them – scrambling to justify their positions, relying on governments to protect them rather than their consumer value, and wailing the minute an upstart threatens to innovate around them. It is hard to have any sympathy for these flailing tantrums, and perhaps the best example has been the FCC-FAA spat regarding the impact of 5G on altimeters that is apparently entirely confined to the US despite these planes flying globally. Ligado’s spectrum problems are another good example, of MNOs lobbying the FCC to regulate a rival out of existence, and just following the logic of protecting spectrum with exclusive licenses through to…