David Burgess's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2010 America

A Telephone System for the Next Three Billion David A. Burgess, CTO Range Networks, Inc. 2

40% OF THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD BASIC SERVICE $6 ARPU FLOOR IN A WORLD THAT LIVES ON $3/DAY 3

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HALF OF THE REST IS “CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE” WHICH IS MOSTLY ABOUT POWER AT THE BTS SITE 5

Try Something Different Get full site well below 100 W and run solar. Flatten the core network (up to 50% savings). Beyond SIGTRAN and Abis-over-IP: pure VoIP. Commodity IP switching equipment. Open source and commodity core systems. Peer-to-peer call processing. 6

New Approach: OpenBTS Network-side GSM stack with direct SIP/RTP network interface. Very portable; based on SDR and generic digital radio. No BSCs. No MSCs. Through OpenBTS, 2G handsets appear to VoIP network as SIP endpoints. Through OpenBTS, VoIP network appears to handsets as a normal GSM carrier. 7

Photos from recent Range Networks install A WORKING SYSTEM TODAY FIRST CALL IN 2008, 2G IN PILOT TESTS NOW, GPRS IN 2010, 3G IN 2011. 8

OpenBTS: GPL Cellular Open source project with active of contributors. Copyrights assigned to FSF in October 2008; public releases under GPLv3 via GNU Radio. Private licensing & CLA similar to Asterisk/Digium. >100 developer kits out there (more than Vanu!) June workshop in Bavaria. 9

BURNING MAN 2008 & 2009 OPEN-AIR TEST RANGE WITH >20K HANDSETS. AND A LOT OF FUN. 10

OPENBTS CALL PATHS, BLACK ROCK CITY 2009 GSM TO OPENBTS TO ASTERISK TO VOIP CARRIERS TO “THE DEFAULT WORLD”. 11

TELECOM NIUE 2010 PILOT NETWORK WITH A TELCO; <<$250K GSM FOR 1,400 PEOPLE, 3,000 VISITORS. 12

NIUE’S LEGACY NETWORK ANALOG SWITCH, DS1 & IP SATELLITE 13

TWO-WEEK ON-SITE INSTALLATION HIGH-PROFILE PROJECT; LOCAL SUPPLIES & KNOW-HOW 14

WHY LICENSING CAN BE A GOOD THING. TECHNICAL CHALLENGE: IUSN’S REGION-2-STYLE 900 MHZ JAMS GSM-900 UPLINK. 15

OPENBTS CALL PATHS, NIUE 2010 GSM TO OPENBTS TO ASTERISK TO SKYPE VIA SATELLITE: NIUE TO US/UK FOR NEARLY FREE. 16

DIFFERENCES IN CULTURE FULLY-AUTOMATED PROVISIONING AT BURNING MAN VS. HUMAN CONTACT IN NIUE 17

4 KM TO ALOFI NIUE SPEECH COVERAGE ESTIMATES WILL IMPROVE WHEN 900 MHZ INTERFERENCE IS FIXED 18

What Next? Airliners, ships & oil platforms Coal mines, industrial sites Disaster areas, relief camps “Forward operating areas” Small telcos all over the world Large-scale rural networks 19

Thanks to... Harvind Samra, Glenn Edens John Gilmore and our other contributors Free Software Foundation Software Freedom Law Center Voxbone, Verizon Taiichi Fox, Tim Panton, Gov’t of Niue Lee Dryburgh 20

At Range Networks we believe that every individual on the planet should have access to affordable wireless communications services. Communications is key to improving quality of life - freedom, health, education, economic well being, social participation and happiness. We provide the world’s lowest cost, sustainable, full featured GSM infrastructure, providing voice, messaging and data services for a wide range of applications and environments. Systems that are easy to install, own and operate. WWW.RANGENETWORKS.COM WWW.OPENBTS.ORG 21

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