Villagers in rural Costa Rica are getting "unwired" with email addresses and IP-based voicemail boxes through a partnership between United Villages, First Mile Solutions, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Central American Business Administration Institute, CoopeSantos (Costa Rican electricity cooperative), CoopeDota (coffee cooperative), and the Costa Rica for Sustainable Development Foundation. First Mile Solutions' Village Area Network kit is enabling users to send and receive email and voicemail, and browse the Web right from their local general store. The project, called Los-Santos.net, was launched August 29 with a visit to the villages from former Costa Rican President José María Figuéres, and represents the first truly for-profit deployment of FMS technology.