23.01.2018 - 01:11 [ Global Voices ]

The First Mobile Phone Network for Indigenous Communities in Mexico Is Under Threat

Indigenous Community Telecommunications, the first and only association of community and indigenous service provider that facilitates affordable mobile phone and internet services to rural areas of Mexico, might be forced to stop operating after the national telecommunications regulator demanded the network pay one million pesos (more than 50,000 US dollars) for the radio frequencies it uses.