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Frank Rieger frank at ccc.deI have no word from Deutsche Telekom so far. Has anyone else progress with other operators or the BNetzA? Frank --- > On 13. Nov 2018, at 17:10, Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de> wrote: > > So, today I rummaged throught the event pool boxes at sysmocom office. > > Turns out: > > a) I can find only two BTS in there. There are four amplifier+duplexer wooden > boards, but only two of them have a BTS on them. Does anyone know where the > other two went? > > b) The good news is: both BTSes that I tested are quad band, i.e. they support > whichever band we want. Lynxis and I also each have one quad-band sysmoBTS. So > we have at least four BTS available now, I assume it will be six in the end. > (Details: a sysmoBTS is physically limited to specific bands. Which bands are > supported is indicated in the EEPROM, and if you configure osmo-bts.cfg with a > band that isn't supported, you get, during osmo-bts startup: > "DL1C <0006> l1_if.c:1453 BTS band GSM850 not supported by hw" > i.e. the two that worked at AfRA on sunday positively support the 850 band.) > > c) To transceive with 2W, we need amps and duplexers. > > The current four amps in the event pool are 1800; sysmocom has more than enough > lo-band amp boards that we could replace in these amps with "minimal mechanical > effort". > > Sysmocom has three 850 duplexers available that we can transfer to the event > pool. > > > In summary: > > If we get 850MHz spectrum: > We are limited by duplexers to three sysmoBTS 850MHz on 2W, and could setup > another one to three sysmoBTS 850MHz on 200mW. > > If we get 1800MHz spectrum: > We can have four BTS on 2W like last year, and could setup two more on 200mW. > There are also two 1800 nanoBTS in the pool. > > This is pretty good news, it means that whichever spectrum we get, we can do 2G > with at least three 2W cells. Now let's wait/hope for at least one license > confirmation, I think that is quite likely to happen. > > Maybe we can even get both 850 and 1800, then we could do 2G on 1800 and 3G on > 850. There are eight nano3G in the event pool, plus some more from me, lynxis, > maybe others. > > ~N