Fairwaves has enrolled in Techstars, the most selective accelerator in the world. Through mentorship from industry leaders and engagement with Boston-based angel investors and venture capitalists, Techstars provides an opportunity to jumpstart our company’s growth. We’re excited to join the Techstars family which brings together the world’s best entrepreneurs. Access to the extensive TechStars network
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TADhack 2014
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
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Fairwaves becomes OIN Licensee
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
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Viva Barcelona!
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
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Telecom revolution starts in Yaviche, Mexico
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.
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Open-source telecom rocks at Dutch events
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
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Hardware Freedom Day sees Fairwaves launch first industrial-grade open-source base station
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
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