Eating Megabits and Megabytes

An FT editorial for and aganist deploying broadband in developing countries. Eli Noam: “The upgrade…difficult as it is, is simple in comparison with the required improvements in the applications, content, and services that would operate on the faster network…In contrast, domestic industries and content would develop better in the less demanding narrowband environment, in which they can access a larger number of small users whose needs are more familiar to them than to global companies.

Taylor Reynolds: “Constructing a world where everyone has access to the vast knowledge resources of the world is not an act of generosity but ultimately, a demonstration of common sense. Let us all eat megabytes.”

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