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Engadget Story about India WiMax Announcement

I kept having to edit this presentation as news came in that supported it. This story about India getting a WiMax wireless Internet rollout - that's the same WiMax that Rogers offers here in Calgary at 1.5 Mbits/second. Except India's is for 400 cities totalling a quarter-billion people. The story is from last Sunday. The collision I spoke of - between the exponential drop in electronics prices and the exponential increase in incomes of that middle three-fifths of the world, is already occurring. And when all those billions of people hook up and start communicating with no long-distance charges, they'll be in touch. Maybe to say...

© Roy Brander, P.Eng 2008