Operator's don't always agree on a standard approach
On 30th September 1830, Operator George Stephenson opened the Liverpool and Manchester Railway using a distance between the inner sides of the rails of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in.
In 1837, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway opened using a 4 ft 9 in gauge. The Eastern Counties elected for 5 ft as did the London and Blackwall Railway and the the Northern and Eastern Railway. The London and Brighton Railway however chose was 4 ft 9 in as did the Manchester and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Leeds Railway.
In 1845, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, it took a Royal Commission to force railway operators to adopt a standard gauge (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in). The Mobile industry should learn from history, and move quickly to adopt a standards based approach without the need for government intervention.
The walled garden 'silo' approach to content distribution has passed without anyone noticing. Operators need to act quickly before seamless and convenient billing relationships are established with their customers by others; Google; Paypal; Amazon et al, leaving them to wonder what happened to their content business.
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