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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (10823)	3/14/2000 7:45:00 PM
From: ccryder	Read Replies (3) of 29987

<<you put up a cell tower or two which itself has a satellite link and now every villager can simply use a conventional cellphone to call anywhere>> Most of the villages in the third world don't have running water, don't have electricity or if they do it is from a portable which runs a couple of hours in the evening, and don't have phones. It would take some larger solar arrays than the usual Globalstar phone booth, some batteries, and the maintenance would be a problem, but the idea would work. The people using cell phones could not charge them except from the occasional car battery, though. The phone booth, or the subsidized entrepreneur with a handset and square foot of solar array, will be 'it' for a while in a lot of places. You will probably find the arrangement you suggest as the next step after electrification. Remember that much of the USA (area, not population) required a huge government subsidy to build out electric service in the US in the 30s and 40s in the form of REA. (Anyone remember what that stands for?) In the USA, the government investment helped to bring economic growth out of the depression era.

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