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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chrismeller on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:10PM (#19422313)
And how is building infrastructure not impacted by labor costs?
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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chewz on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:49PM (#19422724)
Lease, monitoring, insurance, real estate taxes, site maintenance.

From the report [1]:

Tower cost in India (40-60k$) due to low land rent cost. Tower in Latin America (120-180k$)

Tower in UK - 200-400k£ [2]

[1] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/981f7084-c515-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276...

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chrismeller on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:22PM (#19423027)
If anything that is supporting my argument. Yes, all of those costs are less in India. Why would that possibly be?
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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by chewz on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:00PM (#19423397)
Because land lease and related cost are significantly lower in India. Not due to labor costs.
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