Host a site
Homes, businesses, venues, farms, churches, and other buildings can all potentially play a part in creating local AzurePCS coverage.
Community-run mobile infrastructure
Built by people who want better coverage
A mobile network people can actually help build.
AzurePCS is a community-run mobile network project built around local coverage, independent infrastructure, and real participation. Site hosts, supporters, and network hobbyists can all play a part in growing it — from small indoor deployments right through to bigger community-backed sites over time.
Indoor femtocells are one useful part of the model, but AzurePCS is bigger than that. The longer-term aim is a community-built network that can scale into larger hosted and macro style sites where it makes sense.
Who Can Get Involved
Open
Site hosts
Homes, venues, farms, local buildings
Network hobbyists
People who want to help build and learn
Community supporters
Anyone who wants better local coverage
Clear Starting Costs
Pricing
Indoor femtocell
£80 one-off
10 MHz licence
£80 per year
20 MHz licence
£160 per year
How Coverage Starts
Stage One
Simple local sites
Indoor femtocells
Community-hosted locations
Buildings and venues with a reason to host
Later direction
Larger outdoor and macro style ideas
Get involved
There is more than one way to be part of AzurePCS.
AzurePCS is meant to be community-run in practice, not just in name. Some people might host a site. Some might help with rollout ideas. Some might want to support a local deployment. Some might just enjoy the technical side and want to join the fun as the network grows.
Join as a hobbyist
AzurePCS is also for people who enjoy the networking, radio, and infrastructure side of things and want to be involved in building something interesting.
Support wider rollout
Local supporters can help push AzurePCS beyond one-building installs and towards bigger community-backed coverage projects.
How it works
A network that can grow from small local sites into something bigger.
AzurePCS is designed to start where the barriers are lowest, then expand as more people, locations, and ideas come together. That means practical small deployments now, with room for wider-area ambitions later.
Start with a local site
The easiest starting point is usually a specific building or location that genuinely wants better local coverage and has a practical reason to host it.
Use the right licence model
AzurePCS is built around properly licensed deployment, so each real site needs the correct route for where and how the equipment will operate.
Connect into the wider network
Local infrastructure becomes part of AzurePCS as a whole, which is what makes the project feel like a real network rather than a collection of isolated one-off setups.
Scale with community support
Over time, small local installs can lead into larger hosted sites and future macro style builds where the demand, funding, and support are there.
Growth model
Femtocells are one tool, not the whole story.
Small indoor femtocells make a lot of sense as an entry point because they are affordable and practical. But AzurePCS is meant to grow beyond that into hosted community sites and larger outdoor ideas where broader coverage is realistic.
Small Sites
Indoor
Femtocells are a practical starting point for local site-based AzurePCS coverage
Host Sites
Shared
Community buildings and local venues can help spread AzurePCS further
Outdoor Direction
Wider
Bigger sites can support broader area ambitions where a community case exists
Long-Term Aim
Scale
A community-run network that can grow well beyond a few isolated small cells
Clear costs
The starting costs need to be obvious.
If a site starts with an indoor femtocell, the costs are straightforward: £80 one-off for the femtocell, plus a licence that is either £80 per year for 10 MHz or £160 per year for 20 MHz.
One-off hardware
Indoor femtocell
£80
Typical one-off cost for a pre-configured indoor femtocell.
- Simple starting point for a local site
- Good for a single building or small location
- One route into AzurePCS, not the whole roadmap
Annual licence
10 MHz option
£80 / year
Lower annual licence cost for the smaller bandwidth option.
- £80 every year
- Suitable where a smaller bandwidth is enough
Annual licence
20 MHz option
£160 / year
The better option where the site and backhaul can support it.
- £160 every year
- Usually the better choice where practical
Important service limitations
AzurePCS is a developing community-run network and should not be treated as identical to a major national operator in every respect.
- Emergency calling is not available on AzurePCS.
- Do not rely on AzurePCS for access to 999 or 112.
- Voice and SMS capability are not equivalent to a mainstream national mobile network.
Want to be part of building AzurePCS?
Whether you want to host a site, support a local rollout, try a small deployment, or just join in as a network hobbyist, AzurePCS is meant to be something people can actively help shape.
Contact
Talk to AzurePCS about getting involved.
The best first message is one that explains what kind of location or idea you have in mind, whether you are interested in hosting coverage, and how you would like to take part.
Good things to mention
- What kind of site or area you have in mind
- Whether you want to host coverage or help with rollout
- Whether you are interested in a small or wider deployment
- What the current coverage problem is like
- Whether you are approaching it as a host, supporter, or hobbyist
Contact AzurePCS
Tell us about your site, your idea, or how you’d like to get involved.