21 Sep
2010
21 Sep
'10
1 p.m.
Hi,
I have been looking around and I am wondering, when
you are interested in a
consumer 3G / Femto or Pico cell it might be very cheap through AT&T at
around $150.
Might somebody be working rverse engineering on those
cheaper
cells?
Probably, but theses are 3G only, they won't work if your phone
doesn't support 3G.
The lack of good free ASN1 tool (for PER Unaligned and Aligned)
doesn't help because 3G use those a lot.
The nanoBTS from ipaccess is costing euro 3450 Mind
you this is without any
software or server, just a single nanoBTS unit.
I thing several things contribute to the high price:
- That's part of ip.access revenue stream, they need to make money
- Quantity: There is probably much more femtocell made than nanoBTS
- GSM vs 3G. I think 3G was designed from the get go to support
femtocell and so the RF interface has been designed to be doable with
cheap components.
Sylvain