<div dir="ltr">Yes, am aware, but GSM requires a license, and other associated issues. WiFi on the other hand is more or less unlicensed (upto certain power levels and usages)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">This seems to have slipped thru the conversation of our weekly call just now ended (minutes @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes</a>).<br><div><br>Or perhaps <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS</a> may be more than you are shooting for in your village meshes?<br><br>FWIW Indonesian kids/guys I met had Swedish cellphone numbers "for essentially nothing" as a result of the above.<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Anish<br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div>
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