Marten Christophe wrote:
developing a $10 note book computer
I hope you are aware of the OLPC project, because you seem to share some of the same goals. See http://laptop.org/
fedaral goverments will also be helping in this purpose. who will ask local telecommunication athourities , to provide us,at least one ARFCN, without licensing fee,
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setup a USRP1 based BTS .. which might cover near by villages also.
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will install compal based hardware, within, notebook, pre-tuned it to a fix Time slot (TS), most of the traffic will be from BTS to MS , we will left only one or 2 TX slot
Did you research other RF interfaces than the one used by GSM?
( a Israel based company have very cheap solution for small bandwidth RF connectivity )
Define cheap and small bandwidth?
//Peter