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In how many places would this be legal though?

• wiml 10y ago
  It's possible to get permits for temporary operation. People have done this at hacker conferences and at Burning Man for example.
  • walrus 10y ago
    The Burning Man GSM base station writeup was a fun read: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/ http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/
• mkstowegnv 10y ago
  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/ https://rhizomatica.org/ http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mexico/ http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mex... They have occasional hackathons https://projects.osmocom.org/news/46 https://projects.osmocom.org/news/46