No, they've built their model on the fact that for the vast majority of their users this will never be an issue. Maybe a celebrity, maybe an important target but the average user, never going to be an issue.
Email is the gateway to almost everything else. It's used for account recovery as well as (wrongly) passwords and other sensitive information. Google Drive and docs would also be compromised.
It's actually a bigger issue that you would think.
I am not doubting that. I am just saying that the vast majority of people that use gmail will never have a case where someone wants what they have so much to go to the effort to social engineer their wireless company. Ntim but to mention that there is a bigger risk of getting your house broken into or a host of other things or identity theft. Plus this requires certain bad behavior and failure as well on the part of the phone company. [1] It's not clear how easy this would be for a normally determined hacker to pull it off.
Email is the gateway to almost everything else. It's used for account recovery as well as (wrongly) passwords and other sensitive information. Google Drive and docs would also be compromised.
It's actually a bigger issue that you would think.