# Cell phone as gateway

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562>\
**Category:** Asterisk General\
**Created:** [January 10, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562 "2007-01-10T16:26:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dinomight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/dinomight/32/595_2.png) [@dinomight](https://community.asterisk.org/u/dinomight)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562/1 "2007-01-10T16:26:22Z")

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Ok, so i am really new to this so please bear with me. In my house we currently have no home phone setup. My wife and I each have cell phones. I would like to setup an asterisk server to drive the phone lines currently unused in my house, but i don’t really want to pay for vonage or what not. I would like to use my cell phone and my wife’s cell phones as the phone lines that will be used in the house. Basically i would like to have each cell phone act as a pstn gateway for the asterisk system. Is this even possible? So what i need is

1. a way to drive the phone lines in the house (so i can use regular 2 line home phones)
2. a way to have asterisk interface with the cell phones (it needs to be able to send out calls and answer calls.)  
Each cell phone has bluetooth so i figure thats probably the best way to create the interface.  
What software am i going to need ? what hardware? (this will be my first asterisk server) i have an extra unused p3 box laying around that i figure i could use as an asterisk server. Is there a particular bluetooth adapter i should get? If anyone could give me direction for either part i would appreciate it.

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**Author:** ![bira\_more](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@bira\_more](https://community.asterisk.org/u/bira_more)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562/2 "2007-01-10T23:16:45Z")

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There are one solution which will surely work but is more expensive:

1. Get one GSM gateway.
2. Put one more SIM card in it
3. Get one analog card from Digium or Sangoma  
Or take a look at:  
[voip-info.org/wiki/index.php … h+channels](http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Bluetooth+channels)

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**Author:** ![leemason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@leemason](https://community.asterisk.org/u/leemason)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562/3 "2007-01-11T10:55:17Z")

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I currently use an FM Cellroute GSM Gateway connected to a Digium TDM400 card with an FXO adapter.

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/cell-phone-as-gateway/11562/4 "2007-01-11T11:22:27Z")

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the Dock ‘n’ Talk adapters seem to be popular. you then connect then into a TDM card or equivalent.