In his report into police pay and conditions last year, Mr Winsor called for the abolition of a series of allowances and special payments and for a pay system that recognised hard work and merit instead of longservice.
At a conference, he argued that carriers won't become kingmakers so long as the faster service at a higher price is available to anyone willing to pay it.
Messaging has already generated "millions of extra minutes" for Sprint, which has partnered with AOL in the United States, but the downside for users is that they must pay for as long as they are logged on to the AIM service.