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Mh mhtajik at gmail.comCorrect , "Dead End" . if you are aiming at somewhat "All Layers Open for All" in any of Industrialized Telecom Standards , like GSM , UMTS , LTE -- you are either alone or one of the already huge Cartel vendors , the usual suspects . i am specifically referring to business-oriented closed-circuit cold-blooded capitalistic side of the issue . it is big bucks and involves elements of serious power . like Oil business , you simply can not dig a whole and start a shop today . a whole layers of politics and beneficiaries are involved to stop you doing that . internationally recognized organizations like ITU , also , for more or less same reasons do not let some one man company or a small scale team who is not already in bed with big players to go solo , and be available everywhere . Note that i am not in essence , talking about "Security" , whatever that means to you or the next person . you might be well , or feel safe , with your standards under your treat model for your whole life using primitives like 2Gs . in fact i believe this is valid for , figuratively speaking , 99.9 of consumers . it is import an to differentiate between Patents , Licenses , Lobbying for money and ownership all the way down to technical details of how to implement some A5/3 efficient code that can not be tempered with by an evil rouge element in or mitm the network that cancels the whole point for good . you will not reach to a widely usable phone , that all the details of it is free and open by all means . business , export restrictions , regulations and shareholders are responsible for that , good or bad . you CAN define specifics of a secure system based on your priorities and test and certify to see if it fits your criteria or not on the other hand . what society you belong to ? - Freedom of software warriors - Political Activist , Reporter in a Hostile environment or some Humanitarian effort type - Business opportunity research - Military and Dark ops - Finance with 7+ figure daily account exchange - a dude with 007s up his ass after leakage of those topless pix - a Kind smily average father - into white slavery , drug smuggling , dark international arms sales Secure and "Feel Alright" might have different interpretations in each group but that "Open" mobile phone internationally available , legal and realistic is as you put it correctly , a Dead end. M. On پنجشنبه, مهر ۱۳, ۱۳۹۱ at ۱:۴۲, John Case wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Mh wrote: > > > TI or Qualcomm will not sell "you" their IP , no matter what . there is > > a very complicated "legal" process behind these kinds of deals , > > specifically a regulation process done outside the vendor , that is > > usually a government organization . you would however be able to > > purchase protected DSP style working components and NDAed dox with > > 6-figure deals . > > > Ok. So if there was to be a free-as-in-freedom Galaxy Nexus, with full > control of all layers, it would be the result of a real, material breech, > or leak. Someone would have to do Something Bad. > > > > there is a different type of business you can look into though , take a > > look at Lyrtech's stuff for example . you can buy at least as good as > > HDL crystal clear IP from them licensed and hassle free with support and > > dox and all , but they target specially built systems , usually huge > > expensive SDRs . > > > But the point here is an end user (like me) having a secure and > free-as-in-freedom phone, so unless we're going to create a > community-backed reference platform (which would be great, of course) this > doesn't help a lot. Are there any 3G handsets currently for sale that > have this (more open) system underneath ? > > > > the alleged TI's leaks , mo matter what the circumstance , are not to my > > experiences of much practical importance . if you got the engineering > > resources and enough money to put such stuff into use , you may as well > > code it all from scratch , since most specs are already public . the > > Patents usually prevent people from certifying , therefore , prevent > > selling big time for serious profit and limiting the market . its not > > like they are Nuclear missile code secrets . difference between > > engineering and reverse engineering in Software ecosystem and Telecom > > ecosystem is exactly in the time/resource/profit formulation . kids code > > a virus or crack a code over a couple of nights using ollydbg , although > > they need to learn a lot of math and electric shit before doing baseband > > scale maneuver . they almost never do , or Apple offer them Jobs ;) > > > You're approaching this as if I want to build and market cell site > equipment, or build my own infrastructure ... of course that is > interesting, but really all I want is a somewhat modern phone that I can > control and feel somewhat secure in using, which means either isolataing > the basebadn processor (see my other thread about using USB GSM modems > with a galaxy music player) or breaking the baseband of a platform more > useful than calypso... > > I do wonder, however, if these open reference chipsets exist, why we are > looking at calypso as the basis for the "other" osmocom projects (like the > baseband dev kit that has been proposed...) it seems like your example > would be less of a dead end...