Good point! :-)

But I was thinking of how that infrastructure is distributed. In Europe, you can pretty much guarantee that there's a phone cable (fibre of some sort) running past wherever you want to erect a mobile phone mast.

In "developing" countries - whatever the reason for the slow start - this network of phone cable doesn't exist, and wireless comes to the rescue.

My curiosity is about what sort of network it will set up. Will it be a mobile phone network? or will it be an Internet network, based on TCP/IP over Ethernet cable/ long-haul wireless?