On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Alastair Johnson <alastair at truebox.co.uk>wrote: > GSM firmware will never be fully open unless national telecoms > regulators decide to relax their rules. The GSM modem is in effect a > separate device with its own firmware that we talk to through a serial > interface. It just happens to be on the same board. GSM firmware is usually closed due to national radio laws. If the firmware were open it would be perceived a Software Defined Radio (SDR) which most countries limit. I'm sure the GSM manufacturers are perfectly happy to keep those restrictions in place. Angus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/attachments/20081008/b93eb85a/attachment.htm