Why does better broadband help a country? Because it accelerates
things. Much like money instills a way of focusing people's efforts, the
internet makes it much cheaper and quicker to obtain information and as
such people can get more things done quicker, provided that the needed
information is available and accessible.
On a practical
level, it can greatly accelerate ordering/tendering-type process;
basically what the eBay's and Alibaba's of the world have done on a
grand scale. For example: Tally how much time is wasted in obtaining
quotes for each part of each project - each and every entity has to
obtain quotes every time they need something, in every industry. A long
list of suppliers, gets called every single day, and orders get chopped
and changed, often based on pricing.
Sure, this collosal and global clogging of our global communications
systems in order to do what gets done millions of times over daily,
drives the communications industry to a large exten. Is it not this "clogging" rather, that is the symptom of a growing GDP?
What if all the time invested by me, in finding the best service providers and the price/quality ratios, could be saved for the 20 companies following in my wake? What if this
bandwidth and airtime could be used mostly for innovation, rather than
procurement?
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