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It seems likely to me that serving customers in far away developing countries will, if anything, cost more than serving local customers. Communication on support tickets is more likely to run into language or culture barriers, you're more likely to run into obscure edge cases around timezones or poor network connectivity, and serving a foreign market might entail additional legal wrangling.
Amazon is the one of the few companies that managed to scale properly and truely feels "international"