it's more like radio, since it's not tied to an infrastructure network but creates its own network. while cellphones need stationary senders/receivers to log on to the network, radio transmitters just send out their waves, which can be picked up by any receiver...
actually, communicators are more like radio communication... you don't dial any number...
and beaming will probably remain with photons (they didn't actually beam a photon, they just transmitted it's information), beaming matter is not possible
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it's more like radio, since it's not tied to an infrastructure network but creates its own network. ...
while cellphones need stationary senders/receivers to log on to the network, radio transmitters just send out their waves, which can be picked up by any receiver
and beaming will probably remain with photons (they didn't actually beam a photon, they just transmitted it's information), beaming matter is not possible