Mobile operators have had a decade to deal with the knowledge that they could no longer control or monetize most of the services running over their networks, as the world moved to over-the-top offerings. Now they have to cope with the additional realization that they may not control the networks themselves forever either. Of course, the dream of a market with no cellcos, no walled gardens and no long term spectrum licences will remain a dream for many years, perhaps indefinitely. But the share of wireless services which ride on cellco-controlled networks will fall, putting pressure on access and value added service revenues. Mobile operators have generally played a strong hand in bringing the anarchic public WiFi under their own…