No subject

have a similar situation (see how OpenBTS folks managed to get licenses for
their burining man tests).

> - 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...)

This is a rumour.  Only one of the uplink/downlink bands is in there, so you
will still need a test license.  Also, AFAIK the DECT band is not everywhere
unlicensed for any kind of application, but actually restricted to be used with
the DECT system.

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

no.

> - 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.

You would have to implemet a UMA gateway and somehow glue that to the layer3
inside OpenBSC.  I don't think you can do it cleanly with the current code.

Later this year, once the new "real MSC" codebase emerges, this might be easier.

Regards,
	Harald
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