[Ovmsdev] Cellular usage, as it applies to OVMS

[Jérôme Nicolle]

Hello Mark,

That's what I tried to teach a few years ago : more potential capacity 
for less baseline energy consumption. 5g can halve cellular networks' 
footprint with the same performances, OR multiply their bandwidth if we 
use it at full capacity and keep their draw in line with existing sites.

On the French overseas territories we just had a new regulatory 
framework enacted. It mandates radio coupling and/or RAN sharing. We're 
gonna shave off nearly 40% of the current energy footprint once upgraded 
(gonna take about 2 years).

The issue is, most MNOs are planing to refarm 800, 900, 1800 and 2100MHz 
allocations to 4/5G DSS, because their equipments can't share spectrum 
with older techs.

It's not like we have elevators in many buildings around those Caribbean 
islands, but we'll loose E-call on most of the vehicles, and barely can 
use IoT devices such as the latest OVMS, because full coverage is daunting.

I'm thinking we could use some contributive mapping of radio coverage 
from the OVMS. Might be a bad idea, because anonymizing the dataset 
poses a trust issue, though in a time many networks are just dumping 3G 
and will soon end 2G, we might have some data to adapt and share.

Best regards,

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Jérôme Nicolle
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