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An Economist Tech.view column arguing that getting the world’s poor online will be far harder than getting them mobile phones. It notes that with over 3 billion mobile subscribers and handsets as cheap as $25, mobile access had already transformed the lives of the poor, but that internet access depends on costly infrastructure poorer countries generally lack, such as optical-fibre backbone connections, making satellite links an expensive and limited alternative.
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Global
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The Economist