wireless is more pervasive (because they never dropped tons of copper lines into the ground). 10 years ago, it took about 6 months to get a phone line installed at your house in china. so everyone got pagers instead, and pay phone stations sprouted up. now everyone has a cell phone.

in thailand, they dropped cable lines in the 90’s.. but they used bidirectional repeaters instead of the unidirectional ones that we used in the US when we planted those wires decades ago. that’s why in many places, cable modems are WAY faster than ours. In korea, consumers can get 25 Mbps connections to their home, at affordable rates!