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If you're in the US you can play with professional grade wireless telecom hardware using CBRS spectrum. I have a magma core and radio on my house to play around

If you're in the US you can play with professional grade wireless telecom hardware using CBRS spectrum. I have a magma core and radio on my house to play around with. Some teams are doing very interesting work in combining crypto incentives to build private and public networks which modern phones can roam onto with esims.

KingFelix 5y ago
Are you working on one? I saw pollen mobile, San Francisco based at the moment and data only. Interesting stuff
- delabay 5y ago
  I have all the associated equipment for every US-based CBRS project. It all functions. My phone roams onto it, the eSIM / physical SIM works. The blockchain and various business agreements need to catch up for the dream to be realized. imagine getting paid to own and operate your own small cellphone tower. the day is near.
exikyut 5y ago
Huh, TIL about this. I did a bit of digging around and the 3.6GHz band appears to have been licensed in Australia in 2018 (https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018 https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018) after some consideration of what the US was doing (https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GHz%20Band_Options%20Paper.pdf https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GH..., ~p40) and then apparently developing amnesia (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-10/3.4%20GHz%20and%203.6%20GHz%20band%20consultation%20-%20outcomes%20and%20response%20to%20submissions.docx https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/s...) (yay). I did a bit of poking around trying to figure out what the magma radio you speak of would look like but came up completely blank. I'm very curious how this works? I'm also interested to understand (albeit from a literal distance) more about the teams you mention, particularly how phones (you specify "modern" - does that mean 5G? 4G? 4G-with-these-specific-extras?) can roam onto CBRS-spectra networks with eSIMs - I just learned about these and wouldn't mind building a good orientational mental model about them. *Penny drop* OH so that's why the ACMA auction mentioned the 3.6GHz spectra was relevant to 5G... you say modern phones can roam onto CBRS??? How-- oooooh, that's really interesting, I finally get what you mean about throwing crypto into the mix to incentivise (presumably the radios aren't too cheap yet). I don't think I can play with this in Australia (but am unsure how to read the situation, for all I know I'm barking up the wrong tree with the above links) but this is very cool to know about.
- delabay 5y ago
  Look up pollen mobile and helium 5G. both have an interesting approach to creating a totally new private wireless network, OR, creating a neutral host network for roaming agreements. imagine getting paid to own and operate your own little cellphone tower. the day is near.

KingFelix 5y ago

Are you working on one? I saw pollen mobile, San Francisco based at the moment and data only. Interesting stuff

delabay 5y ago
I have all the associated equipment for every US-based CBRS project. It all functions. My phone roams onto it, the eSIM / physical SIM works. The blockchain and various business agreements need to catch up for the dream to be realized. imagine getting paid to own and operate your own small cellphone tower. the day is near.

exikyut 5y ago

Huh, TIL about this. I did a bit of digging around and the 3.6GHz band appears to have been licensed in Australia in 2018 (https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018 https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018) after some consideration of what the US was doing (https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GHz%20Band_Options%20Paper.pdf https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GH..., ~p40) and then apparently developing amnesia (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-10/3.4%20GHz%20and%203.6%20GHz%20band%20consultation%20-%20outcomes%20and%20response%20to%20submissions.docx https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/s...) (yay). I did a bit of poking around trying to figure out what the magma radio you speak of would look like but came up completely blank. I'm very curious how this works? I'm also interested to understand (albeit from a literal distance) more about the teams you mention, particularly how phones (you specify "modern" - does that mean 5G? 4G? 4G-with-these-specific-extras?) can roam onto CBRS-spectra networks with eSIMs - I just learned about these and wouldn't mind building a good orientational mental model about them. *Penny drop* OH so that's why the ACMA auction mentioned the 3.6GHz spectra was relevant to 5G... you say modern phones can roam onto CBRS??? How-- oooooh, that's really interesting, I finally get what you mean about throwing crypto into the mix to incentivise (presumably the radios aren't too cheap yet). I don't think I can play with this in Australia (but am unsure how to read the situation, for all I know I'm barking up the wrong tree with the above links) but this is very cool to know about.

delabay 5y ago
Look up pollen mobile and helium 5G. both have an interesting approach to creating a totally new private wireless network, OR, creating a neutral host network for roaming agreements. imagine getting paid to own and operate your own little cellphone tower. the day is near.