Curious: Is there some decentralized version of mobile phones? Like a mesh network for communication over walkie talkies. Your walkie talkie would help extend the range of nearby walkie talkies and route communication between them.
That’s exactly what I was envisioning, thank you! I wonder if radios in smartphones (cellular module or wifi direct) could be leveraged to do the same in densely populated areas. Could there be a meshtastic app for phones? Free, decentralized mobile phone calls.
I know people in Cuba used to have a decentralized Internet mesh network, but I don’t know about mobile phones. There have probably been some large crime groups who have made their own networks.
Curious: Is there some decentralized version of mobile phones? Like a mesh network for communication over walkie talkies. Your walkie talkie would help extend the range of nearby walkie talkies and route communication between them.
You can make one yourself, see Meshtastic.
That’s exactly what I was envisioning, thank you! I wonder if radios in smartphones (cellular module or wifi direct) could be leveraged to do the same in densely populated areas. Could there be a meshtastic app for phones? Free, decentralized mobile phone calls.
I know people in Cuba used to have a decentralized Internet mesh network, but I don’t know about mobile phones. There have probably been some large crime groups who have made their own networks.
This project is similar to that (and sibling projects such as nomad network and sideband)
Edit: forgot the link! https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum