OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM base stations, allowing the phone to call without using a GSM network service provider. OpenBTS is known as the first open source implementation of the GSM industry standard protocols.
The estimated price is about Rp. 15-25 million/piece, well below the usual Cellular base stations are usually spend hundreds of millions or Billion dollars.
The main fear is usually not in the technology but rather in regulation (sad indeed).
so, for further information about OpenBTS please read or download the article here
ref :
http://opensource.telkomspeedy.com/wiki/index.php/OpenBTS
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[ indonesian translation ]
OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) adalah sebuah BTS GSM berbasis software, yang memungkinkan handphone GSM untuk menelepon tanpa menggunakan jaringan operator selular. OpenBTS dikenal sebagai implementasi open source pertama dari protokol standard industri GSM.
Perkiraan harga sekitar Rp. 15-25 juta / buah, jauh di bawah BTS Selular biasa yang biasanya dalam orde ratusan juta hingga beberapa Milyard rupiah.
Ketakutan utama biasanya bukan di teknologi tapi justru di regulasi (menyedihkan memang).
Maka, untuk informasi lebih lanjut silahkan baca atau download artikel disini
ref :
http://opensource.telkomspeedy.com/wiki/index.php/OpenBTS
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