One also saw this in the developing world where many countries, lacking the existing telecommunications infrastructure based on landlines, skipped a step and ju

One also saw this in the developing world where many countries, lacking the existing telecommunications infrastructure based on landlines, skipped a step and jumped straight to mobile infrastructure. For a while some developing countries had mobile infrastructure and coverage that surpassed developed nations (one could argue that some still do, with no equivalent to M-PESA in developed countries.)