← home / Tools / Low-cost cellular base stations (approx. USD 5,000)⚙● toolLow-cost cellular base stations (approx. USD 5,000)Practices that use itTelecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias (TIC A.C.)Federated cell phone and internet network owned by indigenous and rural communities, built and operated by the communities themselves with technical and legal support from Rhizomatica and REDES A.C. It was born in 2013 in Talea de Castro, Oaxaca, and in 2016 it obtained Mexico's first Indigenous Social Concession to manage spectrum and operate autonomous networks. In 2024 it launched mobile virtual network operators (TIC OMV and Wiki Katat Tosepan) on the Altán wholesale network to provide 4.5G service with national coverage.● Scaled· scale subnational
