Can't find the link right now but it was reported about a year ago, that something like that — mobile mashup network where the phones are connected between each other and not via GSM base stations, was implemented in Australia. Also it was reported the technology was illegal in the country but pretty much operational.<br>
<br><br>.v<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 January 2011 22:22, Sebastian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shop@open-t.co.uk">shop@open-t.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 01/08/2011 04:03 PM, Simon Johnson wrote:<br>
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On 8 January 2011 15:24, Andrew Bates <<a href="mailto:oscillik@gmail.com" target="_blank">oscillik@gmail.com</a><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:oscillik@gmail.com" target="_blank">oscillik@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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right now, Simon is being investigated by MI5 due to this very email ;)<br>
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Not really, it's not even my idea!<br>
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But the basic mechanics of what is going on is leading to this sort of<br>
thing. Give it five years and a Napster equivalent will be operating by<br>
this store and forward principal using Bluetooth or some sort of Wifi<br>
mesh network. There's nothing that can be done to stop it and the<br>
government is too slow to realise what's happening.<br>
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That network is going to be impossible to regulate or control. It's<br>
going to be ad hoc, even changing, unmanaged by anyone and always there.<br>
It's a network of equal devices with routers replaced with people going<br>
about their daily business.<br>
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It's going to make the early wild west days of the Internet look<br>
positively tame.<br>
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Oh yeah baby - I was asleep all the way to "early days of wild west". But you got me with that one :D<br><font color="#888888">
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