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		taneq 49 days 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 49 days ago [–]

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

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