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-- It's easy and cheap to generate radio signals and put information on them.

-- It's easy and cheap to detect radio signals at a great distance and recover

the information from them.

-- It's easy and cheap to pick out the radio signal you want from thousands

of other signals.

-- Radio can deliver information over great distances significantly faster than

carrier pigeons, surface mail, runners, smoke signals, jungle drums, or optical

fiber can.

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