Interesting snippet from a post by Colin Gibbs at GigaOM today

Among carriers, the rich are getting richer thanks to that uptake, but they’re also beginning to experience the kind of network hiccups that invite users to move to rivals that can handle the traffic. The challenge for operators, then, is to figure out how to deliver — and monetize — data-heavy services to the relatively few users who demand that kind of bandwidth without sacrificing the connectivity required from more mainstream consumers.

Two points.

One. Providers are pocketing fistfuls of cash while not bothering to make needed improvements and upgrades to their networks. All the while they are making us pay through the nose for services that cost pennies on the dollar for better service in other countries.

You reap what you sow ya pricks.

Two. Everyone is going to become a high-use mainstream user. That’s suppose to be the plan anyway isn’t it? Isn’t that what we are being told – mobile your life sucker – live on the web where ever you are.

Ya that plan is working out well – except if they keep to their game plan we’ll have to all hawk our first born to afford it.

Yup this is going to work out real well.

The real mobile web has nothing to do with the devices we use to access the Web.

The real mobile web is our data.

It isn’t important whether we use a smartphone, laptop, e-reader, laptop or desktop.

Our data being available all in one place, that we control, from anywhere in the world at any time is what is important.

Right now we are only walking baby steps in the real mobile web world. Spotify, banking, iTunes + Lala, Dropbox, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and more every day, store our data. All scattered around like digital litter.

Azure and Mesh, Google Apps and ChromeOS. They are both repositories of what could hold our mobile web. Once we can collect all that digital litter and store it in one place on the web then we almost have a true mobile web.

Almost.

The only bottleneck – broadband and wireless providers.