Again, I can't speak to the USRP or BladeRF. OpenBTS is a completely different project with a completely different scope. The projects share very little of a common code base therefore I would consider it incompatible as architecturally they are night and day. OpenBTS is a hack of GSM protocol while OpenBSC is a emulation of the GSM/GPRS mobile network infrastructure.

If I had to recommend available compatible hardware, I would suggest community based hardware like Harald's own sysmoBTS or Alexander's UmTRX.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Sipos Csaba <dchardware@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Don,

Thanks for the answer.

THe problem with nanobts that it is unaccessible, and even when it turns up on ebay, it costs a fortune.

I'd rather pay that fortune for an USRP or half that fortune for a bladerf, and I will have an SDR which I can use not only as a BTS.

So, at the moment GPRS/EDGE is only possible with nanoBTS? What about USRP or BladeRF running OpenBTS?

BR,

Csaba

There has been a working GPRS stack for a while now:

http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/OpenBSC_GPRS

As for USRP or OpenBTS, I cannot comment upon having never used either platform.