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Personal GSM Base Station

What do we do with the old mobile phones?
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A lot of people have an old mobile which works fine as a phone, but since they don't have a 900Mpx camera, gps, bluetooth, rfid and blu-ray, nowadays they are considered completely useless.

So, what could we do with these things?

My idea is to create a GSM base station that covers a small range, let's say, the range of a house. The base station will be connected to a landline, and all calls will happen trough it. So basically, this GSM station will work as those stations of cordless phones.

alexandre, Jan 10 2009

Femtocelll on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell
Already baked,,, [alexandre, Jan 10 2009]

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       Google "nanocells"
AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jan 10 2009
  

       ...and femtocells...
DenholmRicshaw, Jan 10 2009
  

       I would guess that a regular landline cordless costs much, much less.
Spacecoyote, Jan 11 2009
  
      
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