Okay, okay, let’s talk about money… everyone’s favorite topic, right? No, but seriously: In all my efforts to get CoLTE up and talking to phones, I didn’t really think about the (glaringly obvious) fact that for us to offer service to the community, we’ll have to pay for it somehow. That means building a billing...
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Connecting To The Outside World
One of the most interesting and hardest-to-describe things about local networks, as opposed to big-scale national ones, is exactly how they connect to the rest of the world. More than any other part of this project, the answer to these kinds of questions is “it depends!” In this post, I’m going to do my best...
Ordering SIM Cards
One of the coolest and most interesting parts of building CoLTE was the process of designing and purchasing our own SIM cards (1,000 of them, to be precise). Even though the SIM cards are a relatively small part of the whole technical system, they make a great visual, especially with our own design on them....
Introducing CoLTE!
Hi everyone! My name’s Spencer, I’m a postdoc at the University of Washington, and I’m super excited to introduce the Community LTE Project (CoLTE, pronounced colt-ee). I’ll be writing about CoLTE a lot over the coming years, with two main goals. First, we want to keep everyone informed of the project development, major milestones, and...