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There is. It just lacks a corporate sponsor, so it is going slowly.
Edit: It is also slowed because there is very little fully open source phone hardware, today - and of what there is, very little of it is pocket sized. This means phone OS maintainers have to rely on various hardware vendors cooperating, which is rare.
Also, the owners of the phone towers also probably don't imagine much benefit of having fully independent devices join the networks they maintain. I don't know how much help is needed from phone tower owner conglomerates, but I imagine we don't see enthusiastic support there, either.
Corporate sponsorship for GPL FOSS os will be difficult for mobile devices as they don't see value in return. They will probably go for MIT or BSD system in future
We should have now enough interest on a political level, which can well replace or create new incentive structures for the corporate sponsorship. There are also some EU phones that come with Ubuntu Touch, or Sailfish, like Jolla and Volla phone and a couple others using Android variants (e.g Fairphone) which could cooperate too. The argument with the phone towers is not familiar to me, how exactly do they benefit from the current monopolies?