Where Cellular Networks Don't Exist, People Are Building Their Own

TechCurmudgeon writes: According to a story at Wired.com towns in Mexico unserved by the nation's telecom monopoly are taking matters in their own hands with the help of a non-profit and open source technology:

Strategically ignored by Mexico’s major telecoms, Yaee is putting itself on the mobile communications grid with the help of a Oaxaca-based telecommunications non-profit called Rhizomatica. A locally-made tower is the backbone of Yaee’s first cellular network. The town's network is composed of two antennas and an open-source base station from a Canadian company called NuRAN. Once Yaee gets the tower installed and the network online, it’s 500 citizens will, for the first time, be able to make cell phone calls from home, and for cheaper rates than almost anywhere else in Mexico.