Hi,
I'm sorry, but in my opinion this is too last minute. There are logistical (where to put this set-up, provide power), technical (how can we be absolutely sure it won't interfere?) and administrative (request permission from ULB) issues that cannot be dealt with this late in the game.
I actually talked with some people off the list and this year there will be only limited closed testing to make the network planning for next year.
Actually - if there is BIPT approval for a transmitter in the GSM spectrum on the ULB campus, we don't really need further permission from ULB (while they control the builds, they don't control the radio spectrum).
I do have proper IBPT licence for 3 BTS for the DCS1800 spectrum around 1748 MHz for demonstration purposes, valid only this week end and limited to the ULB site.
My main concern is logistics. I doubt you have BIPT approval to accept IMSIs not registered with you. How will you get people to register? Secondly, I have doubts about the utility.
As JF mentioned, it's way too late to set up anything meaningful in the way of SIP to connect the GSM network to the rest of the world.
Yes, this is why there will be only range testing not open to the public this year. No time to setup anything useful in the remaining timeframe. I wasn't too sure the licence would be granted since GSM is usually tightly controlled. I requested the licence end november and they only answered yesterday, so I thought it would not go trough and I didn't really prepare anything ...
I suggest we keep this idea in mind for next year. Having our own GSM network at the conference certainly has some benefits, but it needs to be set up with a bit of forethought if it's going to be successful.
Indeed.
Could you please coordinate with network@ next year?
Yup, already doing that now. Cheers, Sylvain