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Thanks to the telecommunications companies who strung the world with high-capacity fiber-optic cable over the last two decades, anyone with a mobile phone can communicate nearly everywhere in the world with voice and data at a negligible cost.
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Dylla, H.F. (2020). The French Connection. In: Scientific Journeys. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55800-0_11
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