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The Telecom Digest for September 05, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 221 : "text" Format
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Mobile phones without towers coming soon(David Clayton)
Re: Mobile phones without towers coming soon(David Clayton)

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Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:51:26 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Mobile phones without towers coming soon 
Message-ID: <pan.2011.09.04.00.51.24.605100@yahoo.com.au>

Article from 'The Age', Austraila.

  Note: A video on the web-side shows software on the handsets allowing 
        direct voice calls from one handset to another using the Wi-Fi 
        capabilities of the handsets.

Mobile phones without towers coming soon          September 1, 2011

A mobile phone communications system that doesn't need towers is being
developed at Adelaide's Flinders University.

The Serval Project was inspired by the 2010 Haiti earthquake in which the
phone network crashed as infrastructure went down.

Creator Paul Gardner-Stephen said the earthquake showed the lack of
resilience in a communications system that relied on infrastructure.

"If the towers are knocked out, mobile phone handsets become useless lumps
of plastic in our hands," he said.

"The Serval Project has proven that there is no reason for that to be the
case."

The Serval system allows mobile phones to communicate with each other to
create a virtual network where no network cover exists.

In Australia it could allow people travelling in the outback to call each
other for free.

It could also provide a limited mobile phone network for remote
communities.

Dr Gardner-Stephen has just won a $400,000 fellowship from the
Shuttleworth Foundation to take the technology of a proven concept to the
product stage.

He expects to have free software available to the public within 12 months.

AAP

Full article: http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/mobile-phones-without-towers-coming-soon-20110901-1jmqr.html




Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:32:47 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Mobile phones without towers coming soon 
Message-ID: <pan.2011.09.04.22.32.45.787347@yahoo.com.au>

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:51:26 +1000, David Clayton wrote:

>
> Article from 'The Age', Austraila.
>
>   Note: A video on the web-side shows software on the handsets allowing
>         direct voice calls from one handset to another using the Wi-Fi
>         capabilities of the handsets.
>
>
> Mobile phones without towers coming soon          September 1, 2011
>
> A mobile phone communications system that doesn't need towers is being
> developed at Adelaide's Flinders University.
>
> The Serval Project was inspired by the 2010 Haiti earthquake in which the
> phone network crashed as infrastructure went down.

And more details on the technology in this article:

http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility/49548-every-cellphone-a-serval-phone-in-five-year-developer-claims

--
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.






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