Running Your Own 3G Network

CDMA2000 was one of the protocols defined for 3G networks and is now years out of date and being phased out worldwide. Nevertheless, there are still vast numbers of phones that will happily connect to it, creating an opportunity for hackers seeking to run their own cellular networks. [Chrismoos] recently made this endeavour significantly easier by releasing 1xBTS , a Rust implementation of the lower three layers of a CDMA2000 network.