A small Mexican village ignored by local mobile operators has acquired its own telephone network in order to stay in touch with the outside world .

About 2, 5 thousand inhabitants of the Villa Talea de Castro, lost somewhere in the mountain forests in the south of the country, do not represent an investment interest for national such as Telcem, which controls 70% of the local communications market . But just a few months ago a group of volunteers and students organized the installation of an antenna and associated radio equipment necessary for the successful operation of a full-fledged telephone network in the village . The monthly subscription fee is only 15 pesos (1, 2 dollars), which is 13 times cheaper than the usual tariffs offered by the largest operators of Mexico . The call in the US, where most of the residents who left Villa-Talea de Castro, also live it's a pittance - a few centimes per minute .

By now the village has received from the Federal Communications Commission a two-year license to operate the network. The number of connected subscribers is 600.

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