Mobile phones to operate minus towers soon
Adelaide's Flinders University is working upon a mobile phone communications system that would not need towers. This Serval Project has stroked because of the 2010 Haiti earthquake in which the phone network crashed as infrastructure went down. Creator Paul Gardner-Stephen claimed that the earthquake showed the lack of resilience in a communications system that relied on infrastructure.
He said, "If the towers are knocked out, mobile phone handsets become useless lumps of plastic in our hands. The Serval Project has proven that there is no reason for that to be the case."
The Serval system allows mobile phones to communicate with each other to create a virtual network where no network cover exists. It could also provide a limited mobile phone network for remote communities.
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