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Re:OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation by ChuckMcM on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:49PM (#12020537)
Interestingly enough, there are places without any cell phone coverage where being able to enable a small cell site would provide communications. There are also many disaster scenarios where it would be helpful to have such a capability.
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Re:OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation by DasIch on Friday July 01, 2016 @08:53PM (#12020866)
In how many places would this be legal though?
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Re:OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation by mkstowegnv on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:54PM (#12021169)
Indigenous communities in unserved rural Mexico set up their own open source based gsm networks and successfully pressured the central government after the fact to give them permission, and their efforts are spreading virally. https://rhizomatica.org/ http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mex... They have occasional hackathons https://projects.osmocom.org/news/46
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Re:OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation by wiml on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:42PM (#12021143)
It's possible to get permits for temporary operation. People have done this at hacker conferences and at Burning Man for example.
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Re:OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation by walrus on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:36PM (#12021273)
The Burning Man GSM base station writeup was a fun read: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/
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