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> I'm always curious if this is Better or if it's just Cheaper

In terms of cell phones, neither.

I know people who tried to push on with various cross-border activities virtually during COVID, some of which involved quite a lot of people spread out across Africa.

TL;DR it didn't work out that well.

African colleagues kept on dropping out of remote sessions because of various issues with local infrastructure (e.g. unpredictable local power supply killing cell masts).

But also there was a lot of feedback that Western style cell contracts with generous data allowances are either non-existent or atrociously expensive. So a lot of people just plain couldn't be online for long sessions and had to drop-in here and there.