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Schools. Communication in a subway. Communication in a car. Encrypted conversation between two people in a public place. Etc. Personally, I find this project r

• Nutomic 11y ago
  Also, events like concerts, festivals, conventions, demonstrations. Especially when the mobile network is overloaded. Regarding range: Messages are forwarded by nodes, so with enough nodes, much more than 100 meters can be covered. And the upcoming LTE Direct [1] will have a range of ~500 meters. [1] https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/lte-direct-trial-white-paper https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/lte-direct-trial-white-pa...
  • anc84 11y ago
    Ooh, it did not say that anywhere. That's great, can't wait to give it a try. Do I get notified when my device has successfully forwarded something through a passer-by? That would motivate running it a lot and might be a nice viral effect.
• skewart 11y ago
  Schools especially are a major use case. In particular middle school and high school students who have smartphone but no data plans - or highly restricted data plans - have flocked to mesh network messaging platforms. Witness the success of Jott (http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/messaging-app-jott-is-blowing-up-among-junior-high-and-high-schoolers/#.ad7ti7:vhwR http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/messaging-app-jott-is-blowi...)