Hey ho for wi-fi in Kathmandu, but forget about the middle classes outside of urban Nepal. In places like Solu Khumbu, we're still waiting for the mobile phone signal stations promised so long ago. Is it a corruption problem? Well Bangladesh has had mobile phone service in the hinterland for years and years and ranks, worse than Nepal on the corruption scale. Must be that plain old, lethal, toxic, dysfunctional state of the state.

L Dolma,
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