The coastline of Michoacan state in Southern Mexico, is a region of volcanic, jungled hills jutting out of the Pacific surf.

It's home to about 25,000 people and entire towns have no cell phone signal whatsoever.

Getting online here is done old-school internet café, as users pay for an hour, a week or a whole month for access to private WiFi signals, still notoriously unreliable.

But this might be solved by an alternate form of cell phone data technology, the further reaching low-band 5G, in which China is a leading developer.

CGTN’s Alasdair Baverstock reports.

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