<story><title>OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>Anyone working on any &amp;quot;ad hoc GSM&amp;#x2F;LTE&amp;quot; startups, or developed any business models around them? This technology is very interesting but I&amp;#x27;m puzzled about what I would use it for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zigurd</author><text>There was a GSM-to-VoIP node based on a femtocell but the company making it apparently abandoned the idea before shipping very many, if any at all. I suspect the telcos had a small freakout.&lt;p&gt;In theory one can be transmitting on licensed spectrum inside the home without permits, but I suppose the telcos never envisioned a &amp;quot;3rd party femtocell&amp;quot; that wasn&amp;#x27;t connected to their services. So I imagine they were faced with drowning under deluge of telco lawyers.&lt;p&gt;Still, that was a brilliant idea. I think the product was eventually pivoted to shipboard applications. But, with unlimited voice calls on many plans, a roam-to-voip home base station holds less appeal.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>Anyone working on any &amp;quot;ad hoc GSM&amp;#x2F;LTE&amp;quot; startups, or developed any business models around them? This technology is very interesting but I&amp;#x27;m puzzled about what I would use it for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Interestingly enough, there are places without any cell phone coverage where being able to enable a small cell site would provide communications. There are also many disaster scenarios where it would be helpful to have such a capability.</text></comment>