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I think this leaves out something critical: information infrastructure isn't merely something you deliver to a region to extract profits from it, but something that accelerates growth and helps build a civil society and flourishing middle class.

If I had a couple billion dollars to blow, I'd be spending it on that. Though, maybe that's why I don't have a couple billion to blow =)

Judging by how quickly certain African countries have taken to mobile payments - in the cases of much of the population, skipping banking altogether - there's plenty of money for those with the right vision.

The profits from serving ads for consumer goods will be pretty slim though.

Far-minded and deep pocketed. Opening a POP in any new country requires a lot of capex, opex, and human capital (legal, coordination, ops, etc).

This glosses over the fact that your service even can geo-scale well over high latency and high jitter networks.