Yes, you don't even have to go to the more remote or significantly developmentally behind countries. In Hungary (in Budapest, not some remote rural place), we didn't have a landline phone up until the mid-to-late 90s. It was not unheard of, just difficult to get, you'd be on the wait list for long. There were street payphones though, so we could call relatives who got theirs earlier. We went from getting our first landline to getting broadband Internet within a single decade (mid 1990s to mid 2000s).