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Nik Pakar nikpakar at gmail.comHello Sahil, Other than the network elements you need to do this, you will have a major hurdle in getting into the actual roaming world. Unless you are a legitimate MNO or MVNO with your own MNC, point codes in ss7 world, last but not least be a member of GSMA. Have you studied all these ? Are you trying to implement a standalone network to facilitate this ? Who is the provider willing to extend you roaming ? Is it a GRX or a MNO ? Do you have your own MNC and point codes ? Put some more info so we can see how best you can get this done. cheers. Nik On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Sahil Gupta <sguptaau at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > If we take the airport for example, there are two other major mobile > providers offering services there. > > I'd probably offer free Wifi provided the customer dials a particular > number after signing onto our network in order to receive a sign-on code by > SMS. I know StarHub did this for years in Singapore and I always ended up > roaming on their network. > > The other thing we would do is oviously have substantially lower costs on > our network as opposed to others in order to encourage mobile providers to > have our network as part of the list. > > Cheers, > Sahil > > > On 28 March 2014 21:33, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras <ralph at schmid.xxx> wrote: > >> One question...how do you want to attract those mobiles? Usually high >> traffic locations offer high field strength of all providers, and no mobile >> phone has the need to search for a different network, unless it is already >> roaming and suddenly sees its home network. >> >> >> >> Ralph. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* openbsc-bounces at lists.osmocom.org [mailto: >> openbsc-bounces at lists.osmocom.org] *On Behalf Of *Sahil Gupta >> *Sent:* Friday, March 28, 2014 10:41 AM >> *To:* openbsc at lists.osmocom.org >> *Subject:* Fwd: OpenBSC and Roaming >> >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm fairly new to the mobile world and am still coming to terms with a >> whole new world of terminologies. The project is to test out a theory in >> my lab before wanting to scale this at a larger level for commercial >> purposes. >> >> >> >> The intent is to be able to have roaming available with a roaming >> aggregator in the United States with a small-scale mobile network enabled >> using OpenSource software. >> >> >> >> We are probably looking at implementing no more than 15 BTS's nationwide >> to attract roaming customers at high traffic locations. >> >> >> >> Our roaming aggregator would like us to send them MAP SS7 Messages from >> our MSC. >> >> >> >> My understanding of the requirements so far are: >> >> 1 x BTS (this could be a PC with some radio cards or something like a >> nanoBTS) >> >> 1 x MSC/BSC/VLR >> >> >> >> We won't be issuing any sim cards on our own network in the long run and >> hence I don't see the point in us having a unique HLR. >> >> >> >> Are there any gurus here that would be willing to share their >> intelligence? >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> >> Sahil >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> >> Sahil >> > > > > -- > Thanks, > Sahil > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/attachments/20140328/dc0dd92f/attachment.htm>