[asterisk-users] Is there a low cost cell phone base station for asterisk ?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

M.Hockings wrote:
> I don't really know the name of what I want to look for but maybe 
> someone could tell me if it would be available.
> 
> I have a number of old analogue cell phones laying about here and I was 
> thinking it would be useful if I could set up a short range base station 
> for them that would cover maybe an acre or so.  What I would like to be 
> able to do is use it to connect into Asterisk and this way have a useful 
> wireless extension-phone range.
> 
> I do know that there are WiFi IP phones available but based on the 
> connection range to our WiFi access points it seems limited as is our 
> existing wireless handset (POTS).
> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions ?

You would have to talk to the FCC if you want to operate on any 
frequency those phones might support.