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Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones?

Posted by michael on from the telephone-tag dept.

Mike writes "This Wired article mentions that research firm SRI International has come up with a nifty way to lessen the need for the ugly cell towers that you see popping up everywhere (I love the ones here in Atlanta that are oh-so-cleverly dressed up to look like pine trees). Their PacketHop software would create a sort of peer-to-peer network, utilizing the unused power in phones in the vicinity as miniature relays, with your voice/data hopping from one phone to the next until it reaches a relay tower and its final destination."

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  1. Re:I prefer to jam the signals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey, alright, ACs throwing around plagiarism insults. Did it occur to you that the parent actually wrote the article?

    No? That's what I thought. Oh, And while you're still feeling smug about your intellectual superiority, I think I maybe you need some spelling lessons