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  • 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.
  • In Pakistan, Nigeria, and Mexico, the rate of new mobile internet subscriber growth is slowing.
  • The remaining populations will be harder, and more expensive, to get online.
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If companies want more saturation they can always advocate for government policies that lift people out of poverty.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but that would make a less malleable population that is harder to contain and control

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Actually if you give people bread and circus, they are easy to control too. And we have plenty of circus, so...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Or – outlaw porn and birth-control and hope the birth rate goes up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That just makes more poor people who can't afford things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

just as these greedy cucks want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Domestic terrorist spotted

How dare you?!

The government MUST provide corpos with cash transfers and other state aid like US feds did with our ISPs for rural brandband

Win win, fuck u peasants!