[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge (GSM) cell phone equipment

[aestetix aestetix]

This sounds really cool!

Possibly stupid question: will an Android work with it? It would be frigging
sweet if you could have an app that switched between the Noisebridge network
and whatever phone network your Android uses.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> So I've been quite sad to see that we lack basically any interesting
> phone equipment at Noisebridge. So in an effort to improve our cell
> phone equipment, I've acquired some stuff.
>
> Most interestingly is a cell phone base station. Technically, it's a GSM
> Base Transceiver Station: http://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/trac/wiki/BS11
>
> I also have a few extra GSM phones and some extra SIM cards (a few
> functional, a few non-functional). I'll bring these in soon and we can
> use them for whatever it is that we need to use them for...
>
> My hope for the BS-11 is to use it with OpenBSC:
> http://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/trac/wiki/OpenBSC
>
> To do this, we'll need the proper E-1 card and a computer to run OpenBSC:
> http://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/trac/wiki/E1
>
> I'm working on acquiring an E-1 card. I totally failed to do this when I
> acquired the BS-11.
>
> Additionally, I'm working on acquiring the proper daughter board for my
> USRP. If all goes well, we'll be able to run OpenBTS with such a setup:
> http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/OpenBTS
>
> That should give us two totally different GSM networks in our space, it
> should be useful for anyone interested in GSM hardware, security,
> implementation, etc.
>
> It also looks like David Burgess is interested in giving a talk about
> OpenBTS next week at 83c.
>
> Is anyone other than me interested in this stuff?
>
> Best,
> Jake
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