There are legitimate privacy and legal concerns, but there’s also some fun tech in mobile cell-phone stations ... great if you want to set up a few base stations at Burning Man and hand out ...
But a few years back [Mark Atherton] got his hands on some old hardware, including a bag-phone and some test equipment, and set out to build a base station that can control AMPS handsets.
Major Japanese cell phone carrier SoftBank and US semiconductor giant Nvidia are working on a data processing system that relies on cellular base stations. It works by installing AI chips actually ...