Gents, If you want to see this thread, it's on the Village telco list. google it up.
Anyway, lots of stuff seems possible, and it won't set you back a ton: quote > -> Localized GSM network and using VOIP for backhaul to service > providers. > This is where the openBTS project is needed! Wicked Alberto!! They set up this openBTS on the "burning man" festical a year or two back. Then they connected an Asterisk with VoIP to it and to the leased lines. They had it up and running and suddenly noticed that people were using it to call home.... (the GSM phone just attaced to the network, no more questions asked about roaming....) > -> Localized VOIP network and using GSM for backhaul to service > providers. > > This is is very easy to do today and no need of the openBTS. You get TeleS GSM gateways (4 channel for about 750 euro) or other cheaper models They do direct SIP Trunking and even analog ports if you want to. Then just point your OpenSER og Asterisk to a trunk to the GSM gateway and you are up and running. There are larger communitites connectiong a local PBX with hunderds of phones to a GSM "backbone". ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: meno <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:43 AM Subject: Re: Open GSM Base Station for Developing regions! Looking for a trial To: village-telco-dev <[email protected]> end quote On Aug 25, 7:06 pm, David Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > You know in my ideal world anyone would be able to roll out an OpenBTS > in either urban or rural areas, and become a village telco. It's > technically feasible and with OpenBTS the capital costs are not high. > Then everyone in the world would have 1 cent phone calls. > > However there are many powerful business, political, and social forces > blocking the way. Mobile phones businesses are just _sooooo_ > profitable. Mobile phones are so addictive that poor people spend large > chunks of their income on service. I even see this in my daughter and > their teenage friends - 30% of their income on pre-paid mobile calls. > They _must_ have a mobile. > > Hence the need for some competition. Which in my mind is what the > Village Telco/Mesh Potato is all about. > > Despite using Wifi which has some disadvantages we are going to build a > competing system to GSM. In many countries the regulatory road is open > and there is a huge market for reasonably priced phone calls. My hope > is that this competition will ultimately help lower phone call costs - > no matter what technology (GSM or Village Telco/Mesh Potato) people are > using. > > Cheers, > > David > > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 07:22 -0700, David A. Burgess wrote: > > David - > > > I personally believe that GSM is the best candidate technology low- > > cost rural service, given an implementation of the network that is > > properly adapted to the application. The problems with it are purely > > regulatory, not technical. The core question is whether or not > > governments are serious about universal service. Telcos have long > > had economic excuses for limiting service and governments have > > accepted those arguments. It will be interesting to see what happens > > when those excuses are removed, and politics and greed will have to > > be used more nakedly to maintain the current situation. I keep a blog > > and I put all of my standard arguments and speeches there now: > > >http://openbts.blogspot.com/search/label/universal%20service > > > -- David > > > On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:37 PM, David Rowe wrote: > > > > GSM is a fine system: the handsets are cheap, and unlike Wifi it > > > propagates well over long distances without line of site issues. > > > Now we > > > can make even GSM base stations using open source hardware and > > > software > > > components. The only problem is that GSM seems to attract business > > > models that are too expensive for the people who really need them. > > > David A. Burgess > > Kestrel Signal Processing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "village-telco-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/village-telco-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
