Solution · Community Networks
Internet your community can afford to run
Member self-service, transparent shared-cost billing and operations simple enough for volunteers — built for rural and underserved networks that have to be sustainable by design, not by subsidy.
$ mycellium community status
✓ members 214 active · 6 joined this week
✓ shared_ledger balanced · KES 41.20/member this month
✓ backhaul up · 99.8% 30d · solar relay ok
✓ volunteers 4 active · 2 open tickets
● surplus_fund KES 12,300 · earmarked: new relay pole
Members first
Members run themselves — and see every shilling
- Member self-service. Join, pay, check balance and usage from the client portal — no queue at the community office.
- Transparent shared-cost billing. Backhaul and maintenance costs split visibly across members; everyone can read the ledger.
- Community pricing. Flat member rates plus social tariffs for schools, clinics and churches.
- Works on any phone. SMS receipts and reminders for members without smartphones — nobody locked out.
$ mycellium billing split --month july
backhaul KES 6,200
relay_power KES 1,050
maintenance KES 1,565
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total KES 8,815 ÷ 214 members
✓ per-member share KES 41.20 · published to ledger
Operations
Run by volunteers, watched by the NOC
- Volunteer-friendly workflows. Guided installations and ticket queues a non-engineer can follow with confidence.
- Remote NOC. Uptime, latency and relay health in one grid — one technical person can watch the whole network from town.
- Affordable hardware. Tuned for the MikroTik and Ubiquiti gear community networks actually deploy.
- Sustainable by design. Automation keeps operating costs near zero, so the network survives on member fees alone.
$ mycellium noc watch --site ridge-valley
✓ relay_hilltop up · 2.1ms · battery 87%
✓ relay_school up · 2.8ms · solar ok
✓ ap_market up · 47 clients
● ticket #118 assigned · volunteer: m. otieno · install slot sat 09:00
alerts routed to SMS — no engineer on site required
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Community-owned, platform-powered
Keep the network yours. Let the software do the work.
Per-block pricing starts at $40 for 100 members — no revenue share, no per-invoice fees, and your data never leaves your own database.