PT Waves and Fairwaves have launched a new mobile operator in Palau

In a post over on the Lime Microsystems blog, Paul Dillien notes how white box and bare metal switches are being used to reduce costs in wired networks, while offering the opportunity to bring independence from vendor lock-in. Before then going on to suggest that, “lessons from these applications point the way for a similar

The UmTRX platform that is at the heart of Fairwaves base stations was designed from the outset to have two fully independent transceivers. Since this would mean that we could hit the dual-ARFCN (channel) sweetspot for many target use cases and have a clear advantage over single transceiver solutions, some of which are able to

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator, IFETEL, has published it’s National Frequency Attribution Plan for 2015 and this includes the assignment of prime cellular spectrum for use by community networks. “For the first time specific bands have been assigned for social use in the telecommunications sector. As part of this, various portions that are available within the segment

Telecom Application Developer Hackathon is a rare event where you could meet so many people hacking on telecom applications and not the boring web or mobile stuff. Are you coming? We do. Fairwaves will bring a good part of its development team and we’re looking forward to do something awesome. We will bring some UmSITE

Fairwaves has signed up to become a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), providing it with royalty-free access to a growing patent portfolio that covers the Linux ecosystem and includes numerous mobile technologies. Access to the defensive portfolio affords Fairwaves a measure of protection from the actions of patent trolls and those who would

It’s a proper time to put everything aside and fly to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is our 3rd year at the MWC and this time we are not just MWC attendees, but also finalists of the “4 Years From Now” startup competition.   Our passion is to reach mobile networks affordability anywhere

After two years of preparation, Rhizomatica project starts to install GSM mobile networks in remote Mexican communities. Fairwaves solution was chosen, thanks to its low cost, stability and VoIP support. Santa Maria Yaviche is one of the first villages to get hold of the new system.

Moscow based Fairwaves recently deployed its open-source GSM solution in the Netherlands using the unlicensed GSM spectrum. Small GSM networks were launched during major music festivals in cooperation with Dutch solution provider Event Connection. After a season of testing, Fairwaves and Event Connection built a private GSM network that covered the city of Nijmegen (The

GSM base station for OpenBTS and OsmoBTS uses Lime FPRF Transceivers, paving the way to LTE Fairwaves has launched the industry’s first truly open-source professional-grade base station transceiver, called UmTRX, to coincide with the second annual Hardware Freedom Day. Transceiver hardware was the last missing piece in the open-source GSM ecosystem. This has never happened before in