I would prefer if telecoms died a horrible death so that we could just use the infinitely better infrastructure for moving information, AKA the internet. They only stand to benefit by holding back the internet with bandwidth caps to promote their crappier SMS tech.
That way instead of this marketing abomination called "Smartphones" (Phone/PC hybrid failure mishmash) to using agnostic modular mobile PCs (not laptops) without the GPS tracker and the cellular chipset (both being optional, the magic of modularity). To have a hub that would connect to the mPC, interfacing with all USB/HDMI/Audio devices. Not everyone likes current wireless devices. Adding the ability to install whatever OS you want with an actual friendly & helpful bootloader.
A man can dream...
The phone network isn't supposed to sound like that. Compare AMR, EVRC-B, and mu-law side by side sometime.
That being said, the PC has a level of flexibility that mobile devices really can't touch. If the PC really is dying, then I think it's a failure or a lack of interest from consumers to take full advantage of their capabilities.
Millenials can't afford to move out from home because they get bamboozled by framily plans and handset discounts that drain their pocketbooks. At 10 a GB, you have to be a wall street or Washington fat cat to watch Netflix.
I can't wait until tablets get Blu ray players cause the rent on LTE is too damn high and all the kids think it is retro cool like 8 track tapes.