As sobering a thought as it may be, the root of the problem lies with the entire mobile ecosystem.

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"We thought it was important to think of networking as a software problem, " say Nick McKeown, the professor who ran the lab.

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All of this is because the politicians thought they could grapple with a problem as complex as this and grapple with it without messing up.

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"We thought why don't we start a company that addresses this possibility of using capitalism as an aggressive way to solve the glaring problem of water pollution, " he said.

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