One Scenario for the Mobile Web

One scenaria for the mobile web by Howard Rheingold: 

The merger of the mobile phone and the internet has not grown anywhere nearly as rapidly as the web precisely because there is someone you have to ask for permission in the mobile world - the network operators. And network operators evolved from regulated monopoly telephony providers, who have done their best to prevent, rather than to facilitate, an internet-like ecology of small and large businesses, heterogeneous media, decentralized control, and a rising economic tide that lifts small boats and threatens huge ships that take a long time to turn. We have yet to see an owner of significant telecommunications network open their network by providing an open application programming interface (api).

 on smartmobs.com (via @hbamoba)

Why I blog this:
Interesting take on the evolution and a possible future of the mobile web. How would network's APIs look like - and what could that do for us?