History
The project was started by Harvind Samra and David A. Burgess with the aim of the project to drastically reduce the cost of GSM service provision in rural areas, the developing world, and hard to reach locations such as oil rigs. The project was initially conducted through Kestrel Signal Processing, the founders' consulting firm.
On September 14, 2010 at the Fall 2010 DEMO conference, the original authors launched Range Networks as a start up company to commercialize OpenBTS-based products.
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