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The problem is mostly broadband and abondening dial up connections. When the arab spring happenend telecomixx went and booted up old dial up hardware to give them internet access back or at least a form of outside communication. Now we are stuck with satellite if the broadband and cell infrastructre gets hit in countries like Burkino Faso. We need to support legacy systems for longer not for us but for other places without modern infrastructure.



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