An authoritative source of mine at AT&T Mobility said: HSDPA UMTS (850, 1900MHz) . GSM GPRS EDGE (850 , 1900MHz) are supported, which looks like his edited version of the E169 data sheet that I e-mailed to him. Bote From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian Foster Sent: Sunday, 13 May, 2012 02:39 To: FreeSWITCH Users Help Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Huawei E169 Group Buy The Huawei E169 is confirmed to work with mod_gsmopen. Special thanks to Marcus Brown (mzb- on #freedoh) for helping me figure all of this stuff out and for donating a E169, a SIM card, and a virtual machine to run tests. Steve, understood. As far as I can tell the bands that the E169 supports SHOULD cover most of the US carriers that support GSM. Like I said in my last email, it is up to you guys to make sure that it will work in your situation. If it doesn't I'd sell it on ebay, I don't think you'll have a problem getting rid of it. From: http://3g-modem.wetpaint.com/page/Huawei+E169+(E169G,+E169V,+K3520) specifications Huawei E169 manufacturer: Huawei model: E169 interface: USB 2.0 (A plug) GSM frequency bands: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 UMTS frequency bands: 900, 2100 HSDPA: 7,2 MBit/s HSUPA: - EDGE: 236,8 KBit/s GPRS: 57,6 KBit//s CSD: ? connector for ext. antenna: + (on some versions covered by housing) connector type: SMK CRS5001 internal antenna diversity: + voice telephony: + NAND-flashmemory: + microSD-drive: + (up to 8GB) rebranded versions: Vodafone K3520 Vodafone E169V Also: http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/huawei-e169-modem.html -BDF On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> wrote: Hi, When looking at models of 3G dongles look carefully at whether they support the features you need. This basically comes down to supporting the voice features, and supporting the bands you need in your area. Most recent dongles with a Qualcomm chip set (which is most of them) support the voice features needed to work with FS. However, many SIM locked ones have the feature blocked. Unlocked ones should be OK. Most dongles now support quad band 2G operation, which covers most of the frequencies ever used for 2G GSM. However, most dongles only support one 3G band. Some support 2 bands. There are, however, several bands used for 3G around the planet. If the dongle you choose doesn't support your local 3G bands, you will only be able to use it for 2G communication. That might be OK. It might not. It depends on your local service offerings. Just beware. Steve On 05/13/2012 09:49 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
Fellow freeswitchers,
I am sending this email out to let you all know that I am setting up a group buy for the Huawei E169. It should be compatable with mod_gsmopen, and that will be tested before we go and do a buy. The reason why there is interest in this particular model is the fact that it does have an external antenna jack. Otherwise they are fairly close to the E1550.