a question ..maybe it is obvious.. in the past Mobile OEMS at times have paid a bandwidth fee to telecomms to balance end users having to update an OS on the device..

Are we sure that the event of Google paying Orange referenced in the article is not simply Google paying a small fee due to the bandwidth consumed by the end user when the Android OS is updated on the Orange networks? side note, usually that download is nto counted towards user limits as usually its also sometimes a security update.