Phone-to-Phone Mobile Connectivity
Remember the time you had a friend sitting in the car going in front of you and you wanted to tell him that you wanted them to stop to decide where to eat? Of course you do. Well, then you also remember you couldn’t make the call to him even though he was just some ten metres away from you because you didn’t have a signal to your local tower. That sounded weird, and you grumbled at the funniness of not being able to call someone who was so close by. That problem may be a thing of the past. The idea that you had all that while, that you told everyone about, someone else actually implemented it.
And who else could it be but the Swedes. They’ve gone and made this: TerraNet’s 1km range peer-to-peer mobile system. Nice chaps.
Posted by roshan.george under Internet, Tech |
Problem is, we’re in India. A place where GPRS is still expensive!
Comment by Marc — September 11, 2007 @ 10:53 pm
That’s precisely where this would help. You could have a no-charge local network. It has a 1km range, you see. I don’t know how it’ll be on the battery though.
Comment by roshan.george — September 11, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
I’m saying new technology won’t get in easily.
Comment by Marc — September 12, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
That’s up to us though. It’d be useful even for a small number. Imagine, we could set up a parabolic dish and stand at the center and talk for free to each other! :D
Comment by roshan.george — September 12, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Will it have 100 free SMS per day?
Comment by Arun — September 12, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
Why? If you’ve got Airtel, we know a trick to help you get that.
Comment by roshan.george — September 12, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
I’m a Hutch customer. But I like the pug more.
Comment by Arun — September 13, 2007 @ 11:25 am
What do you mean ‘but’? That’s not a but. This, is a but.
Comment by roshan.george — September 13, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
Or I could just come to your physical location to talk to you.
What trick is that? I doubt it works anymore. Not sitting and sending messages till midnight hoping to corrupt the message counter.
Comment by Marc — September 13, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
Ah, no no. I confirmed it also. They charged me 5p on one message and then I fixed it and they stopped charging me. It’ll only work on Airtel and is useless if you don’t (send 1300+ messages a month or talk some two and a half hours+).
Comment by roshan.george — September 13, 2007 @ 7:25 pm
Was planning to move anyway when my balance runs out for the GPRS.
Comment by Marc — September 13, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Very good, sir. We will help you then.
Comment by roshan.george — September 13, 2007 @ 11:02 pm