Ahahahahaha... these morons. The tax itself is the major competitive handicap. They prefer to risk a trade war than to remove the obstacles that they themselves put in place.
your are correct, but so is nativ new yorker. for a variety of reasons, europe is farther ahead in their application of wirelss technology. with 3G technology, the phone will be able to download all types of media onto the handset. europe does not want content competition -- which they will get -- but they are way ahead of us in the communication infrastructure.
why will content be big -- pornography. pornography has almost always been the first application for new technologies. pornography is big business and it enables the price points for the new technology come down as people utilize it. europe is trying to keep american pornography out.