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		taneq 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China has added forest the size of Texas since 199... 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?

hinkley 4 months ago [–]

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

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