{"id":10756,"date":"2013-08-30T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T16:31:21","slug":"ignored-by-big-companies-mexican-village-creates-its-own-mobile-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10756","title":{"rendered":"Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own mobile service"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The village of Villa Talea de Castro, dotted with small pink and yellow homes, has a population of 2,500 indigenous people. Tucked away in a lush forest in the southern state of Oaxaca, it was not seen as a profitable market for companies such as Slim&#8217;s America Movil. The company wanted at least 10,000 subscribers to bring the village into its mobile coverage, AFP said.<\/p>\n<p>So the village, under an initiative launched by indigenous groups, civil organizations and universities, put up an antenna on a rooftop, installed radio and computer equipment, and created its own micro provider called Red Celular de Talea (RCT) this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2013-08-27\/rest-of-world\/41496213_1_village-america-movil-afp\">Ignored by big companies, Mexican village creates its own mobile service &#8211; Times Of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Villa Talea de Castro, dotted with small pink and yellow homes, has a population of 2,500 indigenous people. Tucked away in a lush forest in the southern state of Oaxaca, it was not seen as a profitable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1014,227,940],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-mobile","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10757,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}