[jkestner]

Like how mobile payments took off in Africa early because they weren't held back by existing infrastructure.

[taneq]

In fact mobile infrastructure in general kind of leapfrogged land lines in many developing nations. Why run tens of thousands of kilometres of land lines when you could just dot self-sufficient wireless comms towers around the place?

[hinkley]

Tokyo is so built up that cellphones were cheaper in the 90’s than land lines.