{"id":196,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/edwin-reed-sanchez\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:17:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:17:41","slug":"edwin-reed-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/edwin-reed-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"SayCel: Community Based Cellular Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Edwin Reed-Sanchez<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>SayCel is Nicaragua&#039;s first community owned and operated cellular network that re-imagines a holistic approach to communication infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saycel.com\">http:\/\/www.saycel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-196 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2015\/05\/1432061147_SayCel_Logo_4_7_15LARGE.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2015\/05\/1432061147_SayCel_Logo_4_7_15LARGE-300x123.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2015\/05\/1432061147_SayCel_Logo_4_7_15LARGE-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2015\/05\/1432061147_SayCel_Logo_4_7_15LARGE.png 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>While living in Nicaragua I was astounded by the price of a cellular call.  1 dollar top-up is about 3 minutes of talk time.  This is hefty price for people who make $2 a day.  <\/p>\n<p>SayCel is a social business that installs low cost cellular networks in rural, and underdeveloped communities using open source software and links customers to good quality connections to voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls to other regions and countries. <\/p>\n<p>SayCel pilot was on Little Corn Island, a developing Caribbean community with a population of 1200 people. The documentation of this installation provides a toolkit for future cellular installations.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Thesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Reed-Sanchez SayCel is Nicaragua&#039;s first community owned and operated cellular network that re-imagines a holistic approach to communication infrastructure. http:\/\/www.saycel.com Description While living in Nicaragua I was astounded by the price of a cellular call. 1 dollar top-up is about 3 minutes of talk time. This is hefty price for people who make $2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/edwin-reed-sanchez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SayCel: Community Based Cellular Networks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10193,462,16110,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edwin-reed-sanchez","category-projects","category-roddy-schrock","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}