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World's First Voice Call From a Free GSM Stack

Posted by timothy on from the but-it-takes-more-than-a-pdf-exploit dept.

zycx writes "As Dieter Spaar has pointed out in a mailing list post on the OsmocomBB developer list, he has managed to get a first alpha version of TCH (Traffic Channel) code released, supporting the FR and EFR GSM codecs. What this means, in human readable language: He can actually make voice calls from a mobile phone that runs the Free Software OsmocomBB GSM stack on its baseband processor. This is a major milestone in the history of the project."

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  1. Pardon me, but.... by WED+Fan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pardon me, but what does this really mean? Does this mean that we could develop our out cell phones, a kind of born unlocked? Would this allow us to create our own devices that include GSM without relying upon the industry providing us feature sets we don't want or need?

    Is this really historic, or just a really nerdy, geeky milestone?

    In other words: What will this do for me?

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  2. Got more links about GSM patents? by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you've any other links, I'd like to add them here:

    http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GSM

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