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Spectrum Innovation for Small-Scale Community-Owned Mobile Telephony: Strategic Considerations

AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);FAO (2017), 39 pp.
"This manuscript documents an innovative approach to providing access to mobile telephony and eventually internet services to communities in remote, rural areas. The innovation consists of the use of new technologies to access previously unused spectrum in these areas, and of a participatory and community-led business model for the delivery of the service." (Preface)
1 Introduction and Contents, 1
2 Small Scale Local GSM Networks, 3
Annex 1 The ITU Recommendations, 20
Annex 2 Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Case Study of Community Owned and Managed Mobile Telephony, 23