Mexico's First Cellphone Network for Isolated Mountain Village
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The communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day’s wages for a crackly five-minute conversation.
All that has changed, thanks to an ingenious plan that backers hope can bring connections to thousands of other small, isolated villages around the world.