Going back 2 decades, I heard that phone communications in Eastern Europe and the Middle East weren’t so hot but that both regions leapfrogged technology and went cellular.
Makes sense to skip laying telephone wires if you don’t have it in already. Probably don’t want to plan things like that though.
“I’m not getting a car, I’m waiting for when the flying cars come out.”
That’s correct - as someone who lives in Poland and earlier lived in the US and UK - besides visiting India and China quite often
Those countries that in the 80s and 90s were lagging behind due to a lack of telecommunications and financial infrastructure have leaped ahead.
Mobile connectivity and the things done on mobile in China, Eastern Europe and then India far outstrip the USA - and are a fraction of the cost.
And financial innovation as well - in China and EE they never used checks in a big way and now they don’t at all - so pieces of paper are not shuffled around for days. Everything is online transactions. And in many parts you do it all on your phone.