• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 个月前

    telephony only uses a subset of internet things so building just telephone lines is cheaper, which matters especially in the global south

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      I’m no expert on the subject, but it’s my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they’re usually internet-capable.

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        wait, you’re right. not sure what i was thinking of… then i guess it’s an easy way to get a unique human-readable subscriber identifier?