13 Sep
2010
13 Sep
'10
1:48 a.m.
Hi all,
did anyone allready had the chance to have a look at the magicjack
femtocell ?
As far as i could see, it has limited capabilities, but at a price of
about $200-250 it is tenfold cheaper than ip.access nano-bts.
Currently they only speak of support on ms and apple.
Even if it would allow a single connection through the guard-band
channels, it would be enough for me.
hw
14 Sep
14 Sep
3:08 p.m.
Hi,
I have read about this device many months ago, but as far as I know, it
is still vaporware. As such, it ceases to exist until somebody can show
me it exist in the real world.
Adding OpenBSC support for an existing inexpensive device would of course
be an exciting task.
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3:57 p.m.
Hi,
I have read about this device many months ago, but as
far as I know, it
is still vaporware. As such, it ceases to exist until somebody can show
me it exist in the real world.
It seems to exist :
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s…
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/01/09/hands-on-with-the-magicjack-femtocel…
Just not available to buy ... latest news in August said that they had problem :
- Either the power was too low and the range made it basically
useless and/or poor quality
- Either the power was too high and then their "legal argument" of
low power/your house only didn't quite hold anymore ...
Adding OpenBSC support for an existing inexpensive
device would of course
be an exciting task.
And if someone has time, implementing an openbts/openbsc bridge would
be cool as well :)
PS: I think steve|m had found a higher res photo were the chip were readable ...
Cheers,
Sylvain
4:03 p.m.
PS: I think steve|m had found a higher res photo were
the chip were readable ...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s…
Sylvain
4:53 p.m.
Cool!
So this is a tiny micro bts? I guess the bsc part is the software
running on windows??
That is really cool, it's like a modified gsm module :)
On 14-9-2010 15:03, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
PS: I think
steve|m had found a higher res photo were the chip were readable ...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s…
Sylvain
11:25 p.m.
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:57 +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
Hi,
I have read about this device many months ago,
but as far as I know, it
is still vaporware. As such, it ceases to exist until somebody can show
me it exist in the real world.
It seems to exist :
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s…
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/01/09/hands-on-with-the-magicjack-femtocel…
Just not available to buy ... latest news in August said that they had problem :
- Either the power was too low and the range made it basically
useless and/or poor quality
- Either the power was too high and then their "legal argument" of
low power/your house only didn't quite hold anymore ...
Adding OpenBSC support for an existing
inexpensive device would of course
be an exciting task.
And if someone has time, implementing an openbts/openbsc bridge would
be cool as well :)
From what i heard this afternoon (and if i understood
correctly), one of
our the innovation managers is talking to the manufacturer.
If enough docu will become available, we could propose to start a
project for it. From a legal point-of-view there are no obstacles for
me. We have a licence to operate as our own mobile-provider, and have
roaming agreements with all national operators.
All i need is the single channel, low power option, so that anyone at
home (or abroad) can use his own gsm, and pass the voice to our own
asterisk. If succesfully we'll be ordering serious numbers, as we can
seriously cut costs.
So we have the finance, the time, any legal framework, the drive to make
it work and an opensource minded manager, Just got to get hold of any
model, either high or low power.
hw
15 Sep
15 Sep
1:29 p.m.
Hi Hans,
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
All i need is the single channel, low power option, so
that anyone at
home (or abroad) can use his own gsm, and pass the voice to our own
asterisk. If succesfully we'll be ordering serious numbers, as we can
seriously cut costs.
The OpenBSC project would definitely be interested in adding support for any
additional low-cost GSM BTS hardware.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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