Brazil, India and China leapfrog 3G and goes for 4G (Wimax)

"Along with China, India is seen as the greatest growth opportunity for wireless communications in the coming decade. However, even as the 3G infrastructure makers jostle for position there, the year-old Indian government has made several aggressive statements of direction that point to a strategy to leapfrog 3G and move straight to broadband wireless. This approach, reflected in other major emerging markets such as Brazil, will put pressure on vendors to accelerate their adoption of WiMAX – particularly in its forthcoming mobile form – even if their attitude to the technology is ambivalent in the developed economies."

This article show that global broadband is not so far from reality in the developing world as some believe. I don't believe that every country in the world has to undergo a 250 year industrial revolution like US or Europe.