Prototyping a telephone service for the rest of humanity (Tim Panton)

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Tim's adventure installing a low cost GSM network on the small island of Nieu using Open Source.

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Prototyping a Telephone Service for the Rest of Humanity.

Tim Panton

thp@westhawk.co.uk

tim@phonefromhere.com

twitter.com/steely_glint

Airport – no sig – not unusual

Half the world has no GSM signal

Growth in coverage is stalling

$500k Price Tag

GSM Network

OpenBTS

• Um->SIP converter

Asterisk PSTNOpenBTS SIP

Um

$50K

PriceTag

OpenBTS

• Um->SIP converter

Asterisk PSTNOpenBTS SIP

Um

Do 'difficult/mad' telephony

With David + Harvind to install a GSM network

Self-complete works with no outside network

Commodity components – important in storms

Open source asterisk can interconnect with existing

systems

Cruise ship

Diaspora / social (People pic)

Tower (current status)

Spectrum clash. (?)

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