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We thought that this would be the future of telephony but did not know it was already happening in the land down under. 3 Australian researchers have started the Several Project that aims to end the need for cellular towers for cellphones to work. The cellphone instead depend on each other as the cellphones themselves act as cellular towers thus creating a mesh network.

Each cell phone in the mesh network is WiFi enabled and can make and receive calls within the mesh. This eliminates the need for expensive cellular towers. This concept could be of great use in remote regions where creating a cellular network may not be economically viable. This network is comparable to a bit torrent where every person downloading a file is also uploading bits of the file to another down loader. Sounds good? We think so.

[via PSFK]

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