Indigenous communities run own telephone network

Indigenous communities in Mexico run their own cooperatively-owned cellular telephone network. Image source: Shutterstock (#381630922)

As big cell phone companies declined to set up cellular telephone network to indigenous communities in remote areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, the population decided to take intitiative themselves. With the help of the NGO Rhizomatica, and with licenses granted by the state, the local community established their own cooperatively-owned network service.

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