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> It is a large country and has existing infrastructure. The latter part is the real elephant in the room here - the former reason is by now a cliché putdown w
by snaily 11y ago
> It is a large country and has existing infrastructure.
The latter part is the real elephant in the room here - the former reason is by now a cliché putdown when it comes to infrastructure investment in the US. Kazahkstan and Uruguay are not small, even less dense than the US, and poorer - yet have better LTE coverage.
- rdtsc 11y agoBut they fall in the other category -- probably didn't have an existing infrastructure already. So no backward compatibility worries, no need to throw away an existing investment if it already makes money.
- Synaesthesia 11y agoSame with South Africa. We're a relatively poor country, very large and sparsely populated, but doing quite well on the LTE scale, although we are known as cellphone mad over here.