I don't think jolla shall trust the operators to make the wave for several reasons. Main concern, Operators don't do anything for free and their loyalties follows the money. Money is pretty small from jolla. So even if they don't like being ruled by Apple, they will unfortunately still be front and center and jolla on some small link somewhere...

It's up to jolla to make it and if they call for help we will help them but again,they have to lead the community and foot soldiers. We are more powerful than all operators together!