I will try to say it again as it helps me understand it better. This is the question I have been thinking about

Why would a carrier mandate always on voice on a flagship smartphone?

They would mandate always on voice IF they want to be Alexa....

A lot of hearables have the data go to Amazon, to cut that out- put it on the smartphone flagship and then and only
then does the carrier get the data/. Dont let Amazon build itself bigger, keep some value for yourself.

The Telefonica roadmap was helpful for me to get the answer.
Only these carriers, none in our part of the world- will consider always listening on their flagships.
To their loss. 

These carriers if they execute will be very smart....

I had a hard time with this because the USA seems NOT to have any such carriers, they have given all of this to GOOG and AMZN.....

Who are on my own list of carriers who have an inking of this?

In no order....

Japan's DoCoMo
Korea's KT
China- China Mobile

Telefonica in 6 countries.

there may be others.

This will be pretty easy for me to track.

QUIK cn you get the Japanese OEM concept device into the hands of the right people in ALL these carriers?

Oh, you already have. tnks.

I will close with this great snip from Telefonica on their own Alexa

“I can tell you that I am very proud of what we have achieved. I’m very proud of my team. I am very proud of Telefónica and the future we are writing,” said Telefónica’s chairman José María Álvarez-Pallet.