ELI5 Why can't cellphones connect to each other directly, acting like walkie talkies, at distances similar to their ability to reach cell towers.

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  • batphone

    The Serval Mesh app for Android. EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE.

  • Serval Project did it for a number of years https://www.servalproject.org/. Using mesh networking and existing phones wifi. They were initially designing the solution for emergency/disaster relief scenarios and had success in trials. I played with it on my mobile devices and was pleasantly surprised. If you are geeky; think batman mesh with asterisks, using your mobile phone. Not too sure what happened with it though. If you're not geeky, think airdrop but with a phone conversation, roughly the same distance

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