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It's an interesting battle indeed.  My prediction is that internet services will continue to get faster, and traditional telecommunications companies will suffer the same fate as newspapers: consolidation and increasingly becoming obsolete.  The consumers worldwide will ultimately demand internet service that allows them to use VoiP and other monopoly-undercutting technologies, and they'll get it.  Just like Rupert M can't stand in the way of Google, no patent holder or telco monopoloy or copyright holder can stop the beast that has been unleashed - even in China, Iran, Libya, etc, the telcos are in trouble, but savvy consumers will have increasing options of increasing quality.