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Ok, I called the IBPT and I got the procedure to follow to request frequencies.
The 900 MHz is entirely allocated to commercial operators but in the 1800 spectrum there are possibilities to get experimental licenses for a small fee so I'm filling up the paper work ASAP.
For OpenBTS to work in the 1800 band we may need more stable clock source (which I don't have yet). For OpenBSC, I have a 1800 nanoBTS.
Sylvain
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Sylvain Munaut 246tnt@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Michel Daggelinckx 03taxi@gmail.com wrote:
FOSDEM [1], the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference in Europe, is taking place in Brussels, Belgium [2] on *Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010*. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. This results in a staggering number of 250+ lectures!
We hereby welcome proposals from speakers and projects to talk in a main track, man a stand, or hold a lightning talk. /Information on developer rooms will become available later, as we are slightly reworking the concept/.
In relation to that, I'm trying to get an experimental license from the IBPT to operate on the GSM spectrum during the conference. I didn't find much in the legislation about this kind of licence in Belgium, but I must call back the guy tomorrow ...
I didn't take any contact with the fosdem yet to have a spot or anything, I wanted to hear back from the ibpt first.
If other people are motivated, there is definitely something to do there. I have equipment to run both OpenBTS and OpenBSC and I'm located in Belgium, so I'll definitely be there.
Sylvain