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Facebook's unleashed a slab of mobile networking technologies which that hint at how it would like remote communities to connect to the outside world. OpenCellular draws on what Facebook's learned in its Open Compute Project and open networking efforts like 6-Pack and Wedge: a design that will be open-sourced over time, to …

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  1. Mage Silver badge
    Big Brother

    Yuck

    So what advantage has this over existing cheap products that Facebook hasn't left yucky paw prints on?

    There are loads of PROPER tech / RF companies doing this stuff. Why do we need a parasitical advertising privacy sucking social media website doing this?

    Why are they doing it?

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    1. Bob H
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      Re: Yuck

      Agreed, femtocells and other cellular nodes are already competitive commodity products in the business. The problem is that operators struggle to manage deployments of the available tools. What is facebook offering that isn't already in the market?

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  2. JeffyPoooh
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    "...small / remote communities..."

    The first thing a small / remote community typically needs is a broadband (fiber optic or equivalent) connection to the rest of the world. That's the first 99+% of the problem space.

    Having some plastic gadget to screw to a nearby spruce tree isn't the issue. Nor is a plastic gadget a solution to anything until the small / remote community is first connected.

    The "...small / remote communities..." phrase leaves a false impression.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "...small / remote communities..."

      It's a chocolate teapot without a backhaul data connection.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Because We All Trust Facebook So Much

    I think we should call them "Man in the Middle" boxes until otherwise proven wrong.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Because We All Trust Facebook So Much

      Where 'Man' represents huge Data Centres with extremely large pipes, vast Hadoop Data Clusters to extract even the smallest amount of visible pee from your underwear, so to speak.

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