Low cost Chinese equipment and technology was what has allowed eg India (and many other countries Im sure) to build up the telecom infrastructure and make cellp

Low cost Chinese equipment and technology was what has allowed eg India (and many other countries Im sure) to build up the telecom infrastructure and make cellphones available to the masses at extremely low costs. The economic and social effects of this are simply staggering. I was around when cellphones started being ubiquitous: many families never had a landline jumped directly to using cellphones. It was amazing.