> I don't think you need base stations, given atomic clocks shared between the network and possibly on some of the client devices, the client devices could form

> I don't think you need base stations, given atomic clocks shared between the network and possibly on some of the client devices, the client devices could form a large phased array receiver and then mesh the data between the ground based mesh. Are you suggesting that no person with an iPhone ever makes/takes a call with a non-iPhone user?