Zipwhip is bridging the gap between wireless users and landline users for what is now the go-to mode of communications for billions of people.

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But Japan, which has access to the latest technologies, still relies more on face-to-face communications than on the written mode.

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The important thing is learning whether in principle a more stable mode of optical quantum communications are possible.

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