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I think he's the same guy who tried to raise money on IndieGoGo for it. He didn't achieve the goal, but he did it anyway: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/com
by devx 13y ago
I think he's the same guy who tried to raise money on IndieGoGo for it. He didn't achieve the goal, but he did it anyway:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/community-cell-phone/ http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/community-cell-phone/
- icebraining 13y agoSeems so, the hardware is the same, according to another news article about the subject.
- richardwhiuk 13y agoHe did get the money raised, however, as it was using the Flexible Funding model: "This campaign has ended and will receive all funds raised. Funding duration: February 10, 2013 - March 24, 2013 (11:59pm PT)."
- revelation 13y agoWell, thats a much better source than the original indiatimes. So it is an actual GSM network, and it runs OpenBTS. Awesome.
- devx 13y agoIt seems OpenBTS only works for 2G. Hopefully Bellard will open source his LTE base station software in a few years, to accelerate the rise of such networks all over the world: http://bellard.org/lte/ http://bellard.org/lte/
- moreentropy 13y agoAdd http://openvolte.org/ http://openvolte.org/ and you have a voice network as well.
- Zigurd 13y agoThat is way cool. The idea that the baseband processor should handle voice audio paths and mobile network signaling is a very "bellhead" idea. With all-IP networks, doing voice payload and signaling in the user space of the main CPU is fine, and could result in more telephony apps based on being able to access voice and signalling more readily. Like, for example, secure calls.
- tmzt 13y agoMy understanding is they do support 3G but don't use the GSM standards for 3G networking to do it, they run IP directly over the air interface with a more direct protocol.