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For the sake of increasing our understanding of development, trade, and globalization, your humble scribe is engaged in a week-long study of the beaches, tourist traps, and eateries of the Mayan Riviera. I willingly undertake this hardship assignment.
Some preliminary findings:
1. Mexico is perhaps one of the few places in the world where the dollar remains strong.
2. Fast, reliable, free wi-fi in a beachfront condo 70 miles south of Cancun? Si! Fast, reliable wi-fi in, free wi-fi in and around the world's capital of finance, media, fashion and everything else (New York)? Not so much.
3. A discussion question. On the Merritt Parkway, a few miles from my home, the data and voice functions of my blackberry mysteriously fade out. Yet at the ruins of Tulum, they work perfectly. In an efficient, competitive market shouldn't the mass of well-heeled users in and arouond Fairfield County collectively demand and receive better service than a thinly populated, very poor area of Mexico which has much fewer users? Discuss.
Posted by dan at 10:19 AM