In 1935, the US passed the Rural Electrification Act to provide electrical power to places where it was uneconomical to do it commercially. I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen for mobile communications, probably within the next few years.
A lot of so-called "Third World" countries skipped right by the era of universal land-lines and are going straight to universal mobile. It's fairly cheap.
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