Hi all,
did anyone allready had the chance to have a look at the magicjack femtocell ?
As far as i could see, it has limited capabilities, but at a price of about $200-250 it is tenfold cheaper than ip.access nano-bts. Currently they only speak of support on ms and apple.
Even if it would allow a single connection through the guard-band channels, it would be enough for me.
hw
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.
Adding OpenBSC support for an existing inexpensive device would of course be an exciting task.
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 :)
PS: I think steve|m had found a higher res photo were the chip were readable ...
Cheers,
Sylvain
PS: I think steve|m had found a higher res photo were the chip were readable ...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s1...
Sylvain
Cool! So this is a tiny micro bts? I guess the bsc part is the software running on windows?? That is really cool, it's like a modified gsm module :)
On 14-9-2010 15:03, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
PS: I think steve|m had found a higher res photo were the chip were readable ...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0SAhCiCPPA4/S0UoNk0bkFI/AAAAAAAABuc/Lz3B0U9a8To/s1...
Sylvain
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
Hi Hans,
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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.
The OpenBSC project would definitely be interested in adding support for any additional low-cost GSM BTS hardware.
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Hans Witvliet -
Harald Welte -
Nordin -
Sylvain Munaut