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I have a sense that we're missing the main point of these numbers. When they say 'for a majority of people across the world' we have to remember that the vast majority of people in the world do not live in developed countries. In developing countries with relatively poor telephony infrastructure, cell phones have already come into places that couldn't afford to install landlines. In those places, the cell phone will also be the main conduit to the Internet, whether or not it is also the viewing device. In developed countries, people will be slower to give up their fast cable or fibre-based Internet connections in favor of slower 3G-type connections. We'll continue to expand our options and will interact with the Net on an increasingly wide variety of devices (like the current move toward netbooks for casual surfing and email, etc.), but cell phones won't replace fast wired connections anytime soon in places with the infrastructure to support the wire.
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