Community self-managed radio access network

A system, comprising:

• a management functionality in a telecommunications core network, in communication with at least two base stations providing wireless access to one or more mobile devices and located in a community, for authorizing management activities for the at least two base stations;
• and
• a user-facing administration module in communication with the management functionality, the user-facing administration module providing management control to an administrative user in the community, the user-facing administration module further including a processor for performing management control and a memory for providing instructions for management control,
• wherein the management functionality is configured to send instructions to the at least two base stations to apply quality of service (QoS) tags and to use the applied QoS tags to enforce bandwidth and throughput limits based on input from the administrative user,
• wherein the user-facing administration module is configured to provide monitoring of user usage statistics for the community and available bandwidth on a backhaul connection for the community, and
• wherein the at least two base stations are managed by the management functionality and wherein the management functionality in the core network is configured to provide operational control of one or more of:
• per-user throughput;
• per-user total data for a specified period;
• per-user priority;
• and priority for user plane data sent between the at least two base stations and the core network.