Scarcely a day goes by without a new headline that announces the demise of the communications industry, which will be reduced to a few survivors who have the dreaded ‘bit pipe’ status. Some of the latest news relates to the fact that mobile operators will soon succumb to the upcoming data tsunami that must be managed to maintain quality of service, or the recently announced iMessage from Apple, which will make SMS obsolete, at a time where growth in the volume of text messaging is already...