Legal usage without a carrier-licence?

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Jay R. Worthington jayrworthington at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 12:42:36 UTC 2011


Hi,

as probably for most of us an official (testing) licence is out of reach, is
there a "workaround" for this problem?

- Is there some part of the official gsm bands that overlaps with local ISM
or other not-so-tightly-regulated frequencies?
 (i.e, GSM1900 seems to have a small part that's not used by DECT...)

- Are there any "standard" gsm handsets that could be modified (preferably
in software) to work at 2,4GHz?

- Is UMA/GAN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network) something
that could be used with OpenBSC? As far as i understand the specification,
UMA is GSM Layer 3 over an GPRS/IPSEC tunnel to the BSC, so all the
GSM-Goodies should be there.

I realize the first two options would not exactly make it legal, but i'd
prefer the wrath of my neighbors over the suicide-squad from a carrier or
regulatory agency ;).

Any comments?

Regards,

Jay
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