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The material generalizes to other countries with an established landline infrastructure.
This has allowed Africans to leapfrog poor landline infrastructure, which had been a brake on progress.
There never was a landline infrastructure to begin with, apart from urban areas.
Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses.
People in Africa use mobiles for online activities that others normally perform on laptops or desktop computers as the technology overcomes weak or non-existent landline infrastructure in large swaths of the world's poorest continent.
"I think this is the leapfrog-in-technology effect," Mdoe adds, comparing the arrival of drones to the seismic change wrought by "the movement from landline infrastructure – where you had to build poles every two metres – to mobile phones".
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Wireless phone service has expanded rapidly, owing to the inadequacy of the landline telephone infrastructure and to the greater flexibility of wireless phones.
GreenTouch thinks that energy savings could be even more profound by rethinking every step of the mobile computing chain - the wireless network, the landline telecommunications infrastructure, and end devices.
It accesses the trove of telephone metadata available to AT&T, who control a large proportion of America's landline and cellphone infrastructure.
The telecoms trumpet such squeezing as a way to provide better landline service with existing infrastructure: they need run no new copper to add lines in a neighbourhood.
Mobile phone coverage far outstrips traditional landline phone and broadband infrastructure in many developing nations, which means the mobile phone is the primary computing device for many.
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