Mobile system promises free calls (BBC)

A new way of making calls directly between phones, for free, is being trialled by a Swedish company.

It is hoping to dramatically improve communications in the developing world.

Swedish company TerraNet has developed the idea using peer-to-peer technology that enables users to speak on its handsets without the need for a mobile phone base station.

The technology is designed for remote areas of the countryside or desert where base stations are unfeasible.

Projects backed by TerraNet recently launched in Tanzania and Ecuador.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6987784.stm

It's FidoNet, reborn!

Does the push for cell phone technology in the "third world" make sense? See my comments in this earlier post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1778942&mesg_id=1778942

thanks much for the post!