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Its weird no one has mentioned this: You can't actually use in the wild, its illegal to! Straight from the Osmocombb site: "Keep in mind however that using Osm
by soganess 12y ago
Its weird no one has mentioned this: You can't actually use in the wild, its illegal to!
Straight from the Osmocombb site: "Keep in mind however that using OsmocomBB based phone on public network without proper permission is illegal"
Another reason why GSM and its offspring(I'm looking at you LTE) blows ugly chunks.
- seba_dos1 12y agoAlready mentioned it two times here :) You can, however, use the monitor mode without transmitting anything.
- userbinator 12y agoAll the various unbranded/generic/clone handsets coming out of China are likely illegal to use on any networks too since they haven't been given the certification, but AFAIK they work fine since they adhere to the protocols and would probably pass the certification anyway. I don't know how far along OsmocomBB is, but if it is indistinguishable from a "real" phone as far as the network is concerned, then it'd be a similar scenario. What the networks don't want - and the motivation for the certification - is for some device to misbehave (e.g. emit a continuous transmission) and interfere with the operation of other devices on the network.