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kerney at cryptikware.com kerney at cryptikware.comI don't remember the complete process, bit you can apply to the FCC for an experimental lic from their website. You have to pay a fee (I think it was 50 or 100 USD) and as long as you are power limited, I think they pretty much approve it for one year. I can post the website link once I get back to the office. *Sent from my iPhone 4 On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:25 PM, "Harald Welte" <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote: > Hi Jay, > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:42:36PM +0100, Jay R. Worthington wrote: > >> as probably for most of us an official (testing) licence is out of reach, is >> there a "workaround" for this problem? > > why do you think that? 'experimental license' != 'carrier license'. > > We've obtained this in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. So > at least in the EU it seems generally no problem > > The fees we had to pay for those experimental/test licenses are typically < 300 > EUR, so much cheaper than the equipment that you need to run the network > anyway. > > From what I've heard about the US with regard to experimental licenses, they > have a similar situation (see how OpenBTS folks managed to get licenses for > their burining man tests). > >> - Is there some part of the official gsm bands that overlaps with local ISM >> or other not-so-tightly-regulated frequencies? >> (i.e, GSM1900 seems to have a small part that's not used by DECT...) > > This is a rumour. Only one of the uplink/downlink bands is in there, so you > will still need a test license. Also, AFAIK the DECT band is not everywhere > unlicensed for any kind of application, but actually restricted to be used with > the DECT system. > >> - Are there any "standard" gsm handsets that could be modified (preferably >> in software) to work at 2,4GHz? > > no. > >> - Is UMA/GAN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network) something >> that could be used with OpenBSC? As far as i understand the specification, >> UMA is GSM Layer 3 over an GPRS/IPSEC tunnel to the BSC, so all the >> GSM-Goodies should be there. > > You would have to implemet a UMA gateway and somehow glue that to the layer3 > inside OpenBSC. I don't think you can do it cleanly with the current code. > > Later this year, once the new "real MSC" codebase emerges, this might be easier. > > Regards, > Harald > -- > - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ > ============================================================================ > "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." > (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) >