Village Base Station project. A 20watt, OpenBTS based, voice and low-bandwidth node.
Building Your Own GSM Network: A Demonstration of the Village Base Station Project
Posted by AnneryanHeatwole on Jul 15, 2011
MoblleActive.org recently had the opportunity to test an off-the-grid GSM base station. Kurtis Heimerl presented The Village Base Station (VBTS), (link is a PDF) a low-power means of providing mobile network service without grid power or network infrastructure.
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Phi Beta Iota: As best we can tell, OpenBTS is central–vital–to the achievement of Open Society as well as Open Government, and is the only way that we can reasonably scale free to very low cost Internet access to the five billion poor.
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