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New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling (restofworld.org)

submitted 3 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 43 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

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

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

Domestic terrorist spotted

How dare you?!

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

Win win, fuck u peasants!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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