New mobile system uses phones as middlemen

The developers of a new mobile phone system which transmits signals by jumping them from phone to phone to phone, rather than using towers, believe it could revolutionise communications in the bush, reports ABCNews Online.

"Scientists at the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre have designed a network where mobile phones work together to transmit calls.

The centre's chief executive, Mark Stafford Smith, says the technology should work better and be cheaper to set up than traditional mobile phone systems.

"[It] uses the different phones as the linkage, through from one phone to another to another to another to the person that you are trying to call," he said."

emily | 12:43 PM | Technology |
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