A fairly-well documented article has already been written about this for RTL-SDRs. But what about the USRP folks out there? The article’s cited files to use are even RTL-SDR geared. The easy response to that would be to suck it up, and purchase an RTL-SDR dongle. Well, you would be mistaken. Not every location has GSM bands that fall under 1.7GHz (specifically 850MHz for AT&T and T-Mobile). In some locations, CDMA rides on these bands. This can be a bit frustrating. Well, look no further than here. Fire up your USRP (read: HackRF, BladeRF, USRP, etc.) and follow the directions for the RTL-SDR here and stop at the point where it asks you to load their cfile for testing.

From here on out, follow these directions.