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3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection

hoola Silver badge

A Western/Technology View

So this is a survey by an organisation in a developed country advocating that less developed countries have to spend money on tech.

Voice calls are a very good communications tool and can be beneficial. The trouble is that for rich countries the voice function of a phone is barely relevant, it is everything else that does the damage, destroys cultures and socienties.

Being a "developed" country is a uniquely Western philosophy where countries that don't have access to what we perceive as critical services as being deprived.

Providing clean drinking water, sanitation and education is probably a better use of money than this. Yes is has its place, but just not how the west perceive it.

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