The technology is readily available, people will pay to have access to it. Yet, a lot of people still don’t have this technology made available to them.
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The power grid is not only generators and wires, it’s infrastructure, built in redundancy, and responsible management. A mud slide in a third world country can cause a lot of damage to infrastructure and power grids. If a town has only one road in and out, it can be difficult and expensive to restore power. A first world country would have multiple roads servicing each community, and would just helicopter parts in if they had to, but that’s expensive for a third world country. Add to that corruption, insurgency attacks, annual natural weather patters, like cyclone season, flood season, etc.. it can be near impossible to ensure consistent service.
It’s kind of like [cell phone service in Canada](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cm09bkcn175j7x6gwx4r9/cellcoveragecanada.png?rlkey=ax1avkfzcg327jurdtx1nqtk4&dl=0). Look at the coverage percentages here. Despite not being ‘third world’, many people rely on satellite service, and more recently, Skylink because Canada is vast, and most of the paying customers live within 100 miles of the southern border. The paying customers in the northern areas couldn’t pay the bills for cell towers and infrastructure in a thousand years, so you have cell coverage around the cities, along the trans Canada highway, in national parks, but the rest of the country is on it’s own.
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