{"id":10949,"date":"2015-03-24T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:30:14","slug":"diy-telecoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/press-coverage\/diy-telecoms\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY telecoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"rubric\">Fed up with the failings of the big operators, remote Mexican communities are acting for themselves<\/h2>\n<p>IN THE cloud forests of the Sierra de Ju\u00e1rez mountains in southern Mexico, a new kind of tree is springing up: the mobile telephone mast. Unlike most phone masts in the world these are installed, owned and operated by small, mostly indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=&#8221;yes&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221;][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=&#8221;1_1&#8243; background_position=&#8221;left top&#8221; background_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_size=&#8221;&#8221; border_color=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; spacing=&#8221;yes&#8221; background_image=&#8221;&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221; padding=&#8221;&#8221; margin_top=&#8221;0px&#8221; margin_bottom=&#8221;0px&#8221; class=&#8221;&#8221; id=&#8221;&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;&#8221; animation_speed=&#8221;0.3&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;no&#8221; center_content=&#8221;no&#8221; min_height=&#8221;none&#8221;][\u2026] improvements in software and the falling price of hardware has made it possible to build a local mobile-phone base station for around $7,500, which non-profit operators and small communities can muster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"The Economist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/technology-quarterly\/21645498-fed-up-failings-big-operators-remote-mexican-communities-are-acting\">Click here for the full article!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-10950 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Image1.png\" alt=\"the_economist_logo\" width=\"112\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The Economist<\/b><\/p>\n<p>March 7th 2015[\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the failings of the big operators, remote Mexican communities are acting for themselves IN THE cloud forests of the Sierra de Ju\u00e1rez mountains in southern Mexico, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-coverage","category-uncategorised-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13287,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/13287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuranwireless.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}