Every Phone May Be A Cell-Tower

[rajanmehta 4,056]

This Looks Like A Real Groundbreaking Original Idea

If Done Correctly, Will Change How We Use Mobile Forever And We All Will Become Mobile Torrents....

Peep Wireless Technology (PWT), a Delaware-based company, has revealed a software app that turns a phone into a small cell tower (client/server viral transmitter/receiver).

The application will be revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show or CES in Las Vegas later this week. It is called PeepApp and will initially be available only for the iPhone. Later it will be made for other mobile operating systems as well.

Phones with the app, which operate as cellphone towers, or "seed phones" as the company calls them, in turn identifies and connects every device with Bluetooth, WiFi or other spectrum points which has PeepApp (i.e.: game boxes, pads, cafes, Bluetooth cars, PC's and internet TV's etc.) and cause the Peep Mesh to grow and grow around the world in a peer-to-peer manner.

Peep Wireless claims that this new network will mean that the consumer would never need to pay a phone bill again and all his email, internet and media access would be free forever.

For network operators PeepApp saves billions of dollars and years of build-out time, and doubles their capacity almost overnight. It creates instant, low-cost connectivity for even those places that femtocells and picocells cannot fill.

PeepApp is software based but the company will release a keyfob (key chain) item that is said to quadruple the range, scope and power of the PeepApp.

With the Peep technology, mobile devices connect instantly to one another over WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, CDMA or walkie talkie channels that PeepApp constantly scans. No cell tower, base station or internet server is needed.

Phone calls, media sharing, texts, movies, media and data sharing can be free between all mobile devices. All mobile units act as nodes. They transport data traffic between all the other such devices in clusters.

Any phone call moves from one device to the next in segments, sometimes in different duplicate segments with the fastest segment of the duplicates being used until the call reaches its destination.

This viral mesh network growth can instantly span a vast area with no external infrastructure required.

This unique, proprietary technology offers the ability to interact with any phone anywhere in the world free of cost. Phones with PeeApp can move across any carrier system, via a legal "backdoor" technology that Peep has engineered.

Peep devices make voice and data calls by scanning and using the entire free spectrum adjacent to paid spectrum used by service providers and the company claims that it only takes a handful of people using PeepApps to provide network coverage across an entire large city.

The release of this app to the consumer has not been announced and the company plans to license PeepApp to other parties who will in turn bring it to market.

Source:TelecomYatra

Edited January 5, 2011 by Honest
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[theking 35]

sounds awesome....but....

-SAR emmissions are a big question

-imagine the battery drain

[Honest 836]

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[mihirf2003 7]

sounds awesome....but....

-SAR emmissions are a big question

-imagine the battery drain

rightly said... the signal emissions would be very high.... and also u need to keep an extra battery pack to serve the purpose...

[sgiitk 32]

Let us see. I doubt whether the phone battery will have to juice to work as a re-transmitter and last for long.

[sumatrix 1]

every problem has a soln .i thin using the extra battery packs is the best soln as of now

[vishalmcp 8]

amazing app.....

[csmart 472]

good App. but

1. why telcos will promote/allow? if user can make free calls then who will use telcos

2. what about security and privacy?

3. battery

4. radiation level

Telcos will try to block this and come with above and other points as they are poised to loose money since app makes "free calls"

[thilak.kmb 19]

good App. but

1. why telcos will promote/allow? if user can make free calls then who will use telcos

2. what about security and privacy?

3. battery

4. radiation level

Telcos will try to block this and come with above and other points as they are poised to loose money since app makes "free calls"

Battery problem is OK. But how free calls will come?

There may not be any change in the radiation level as the same signal will be used.

[digitalnirvana 646]

So this is a peer-to-peer connectivity? I initially thought reading the headline that each phone would act as a BTS but it is not the case. How will data be transmitted over this P2P network, because telcos would own the spectrum (except for short range connectivity like bluetooth) - why would they allow revenue generating traffic be sent for free over their carriers?

Sorry but this is confusing, can someone please explain.

[shrik 9]

Reminds me of the technology used to create wi-fi networks such as Fon. The concept is that you share your (wired) broadband connection via wi-fi and in turn can use other shared wi-fi networks for free. This has caught on in a big way in UK through a partnership with BT. So whenever free wi-fi is available, your phone can switch to that and save on cellular talktime and data charges.

[gargoyle 15]

This is not gonna work out. They have tried a similar type of "networking" in Canada....but the whole adventure flopped due to security concerns/ personal data compromise.