On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 14:57 +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
Hi,
I have read about this device many months ago, but as far as I know, it is still vaporware. As such, it ceases to exist until somebody can show me it exist in the real world.
It seems to exist :
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s4... http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/01/09/hands-on-with-the-magicjack-femtocell...
Just not available to buy ... latest news in August said that they had problem :
- Either the power was too low and the range made it basically
useless and/or poor quality
- Either the power was too high and then their "legal argument" of
low power/your house only didn't quite hold anymore ...
Adding OpenBSC support for an existing inexpensive device would of course be an exciting task.
And if someone has time, implementing an openbts/openbsc bridge would be cool as well :)
From what i heard this afternoon (and if i understood correctly), one of
our the innovation managers is talking to the manufacturer.
If enough docu will become available, we could propose to start a project for it. From a legal point-of-view there are no obstacles for me. We have a licence to operate as our own mobile-provider, and have roaming agreements with all national operators.
All i need is the single channel, low power option, so that anyone at home (or abroad) can use his own gsm, and pass the voice to our own asterisk. If succesfully we'll be ordering serious numbers, as we can seriously cut costs.
So we have the finance, the time, any legal framework, the drive to make it work and an opensource minded manager, Just got to get hold of any model, either high or low power.
hw