Open-source cell phone network could cut costs to $2 per month

Article's more than a year old, and a semi-duplicate of a HN post from around that era.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647763" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647763</a>

I wish we had this in the US. I would much rather pay $2 a month for talking and text than the ridiculous prices that the phone companies charge.

openBTS doesn't seem to succeed commercially. In the only case in it was deployed fr long term use , at the island of niue in 2010 , it was later replace by a commercial base-station vendor called lemko.

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