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In fact mobile infrastructure in general kind of leapfrogged land lines in many developing nations. Why run tens of thousands of kilometres of land lines when you could just dot self-sufficient wireless comms towers around the place?




Tokyo is so built up that cellphones were cheaper in the 90’s than land lines.



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