headquarters san francisco ca usa key people bob fultz vp of products pedro rump vp of engineering harvind samra co founder and cto products rapidcell 5150 series development kit number of employees 30 website http rangenetworks.com range networks inc. is a u.s. company that provides open source software products used to operate cellular networks . founded in 2011 range networks is headquartered in san francisco ca with satellite offices worldwide . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 openbts project 4 deployments 5 references history edit in 2007 david burgess and harvind samra created openbts subsequently releasing the source code to the public to provide cellular service to people in rural and remote regions . in 2010 the founders incorporated as range networks to commercialize openbts based products and deploy networks worldwide . range networks deployments can now be found on all seven continents including antarctica . in december 2010 the company raised 12 million from gray ghost ventures and omidyar network . technology edit range networks is a provider of u.s. made commercial open source cellular systems . using a combination of range networks hardware and software network operators can build networks in which traditional gsm handsets are treated as virtual sip endpoints . 1 the company supports 2g 2.5 g and 3g gsm systems . 2 openbts project edit the openbts project an open source software defined radio implementation of the gsm global system for mobile communications radio access network that presents normal gsm handsets as virtual sip endpoints was developed and is maintained by range networks . range networks produces proprietary software packages releasing their source code mostly under the gnu agpl while holding copyright under single commercial entity selling commercial licenses support and hardware . in august 2013 range networks announced the release of an update to openbts providing developers with the ability to incorporate internet access through a packet oriented mobile data service known as general packet radio service gprs . 3 deployments edit range networks has worked with university and research groups to deploy cellular networks in rural regions around the world . indonesia partnering with uc berkeley s technology and infrastructure for emerging regions tier research group a cellular network was established in papua indonesia . 4 in mid 2012 a wireless internet service provider in rural papua contacted the tier group about setting up a low power gsm base station in a remote village in the central highlands of papua . the village now has both voice and global sms service and the network is profitable for local service providers . 5 zambia in collaboration with the uc santa barbara s mobility management and networking laboratory moment lab a cellular network was deployed to study the economic feasibility of bringing cellular networks to remote regions . 6 the deployment of the network provided the remote village of macha in zambia with the capability of making and receiving calls and sending and receiving local sms messages . 7 the network also allowed for outgoing global calls and outgoing global sms text messages on a trial basis . 8 mexico through a partnership with non profit organization rhizomatica 9 a cellular network was established in oaxaca mexico . covering a village of approximately 2500 residents where traditional cellular service was previously non existent the network is now serving over 450 residents who are able to make local and global calls and send text messages . 10 today the community has its own cellular infrastructure including billing and management of the network on their own . 11 12 13 antarctica the australian antarctic division aad an environmental protection agency used range networks equipment to extend a private network used by researchers . 14 the agency has plans for three new sites to complete coverage of the entire operational area . references edit http www.telecompetitor.com range networks offers sip based wireless access network http www.rcrwireless.com article 20130402 networks range networks http www.mobiletechnews.com info 2013 08 20 140422 . html http tier.cs.berkeley.edu http www.rcrwireless.com article 20130520 infrastructure 2 hetnet news range networks integrates open source equipment new firetide ceo http moment.cs.ucsb.edu http cs.ucsb.edu mariya docs mobisys254 zheleva.pdf http www.cio.de news cio worldnews 2013 2923028 http rhizomatica.org http www.efe.com efe noticias english business mexican town creates wireless network 4 60 2109068 http www.npr.org templates story story.php storyid 223120336 & ft 1 & f http www.youtube.com watch v 4g1na3sechy http www.usatoday.com story news world 2013 09 16 mexico sees its first village cellphone network 2821643 http www.antarctica.gov.au retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title range networks & oldid 703321736 categories software companies based in california 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