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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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That cell phones did to landlines

What does it mean "did to landlines"? Thanks for helping

It is so important to us and we think about it a lot especially in environments where there is not good traditional infrastructure, and there is a phenomenal opportunity to leapfrog over the lack of effective conventional infrastructure in the same way that cell phones did to landlines to make it possible to begin to build something and that can serve people in a decentralized context .

  

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It's a rambling and very poorly constructed sentence. I think the idea is this. In many parts of the world, people did not yet have infrastructure for and-line phones.

— Clive

  • It's a rambling and very poorly constructed sentence.
  • I think the idea is this.
  • In many parts of the world, people did not yet have infrastructure for and-line phones.
  • But when cell phones arrived, this lack of infrastructure for land lines was not a problem anymore.
  • In other words, cell-phones leapfrogged over the lack of effective conventional land line technology.
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It's a rambling and very poorly constructed sentence.

I think the idea is this.

In many parts of the world, people did not yet have infrastructure for and-line phones. But when cell phones arrived, this lack of infrastructure for land lines was not a problem anymore. In other words, cell-phones leapfrogged over the lack of effective conventional land line technology.

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anonymousWhat does it mean "did to landlines"?

Do you know how pronouns can substitute for nouns? It's like this:

Mr. Thomas went to the bank today. Then he met his wife for lunch.

You can do the same thing with verbs, by using the pro-verb do (do, does, did). [We can't use "proverb" without the hyphe

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