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Even in the developed world, coverage of high speed wireless broadband (e.g. 3G and up) isn't complete. In the less developed world the coverage is even worse[1
by rkangel 9y ago
Even in the developed world, coverage of high speed wireless broadband (e.g. 3G and up) isn't complete. In the less developed world the coverage is even worse[1].
I don't know the costs to set up and run the network, but I do feel like there is a large possible customer base.
[1] https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/08/global-state-of-the-mobile-network https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/08/global-state-of-the-m...
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