Telefonica to develop mobile phone for uncovered areas (Spain)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A mobile phone enabling users to send SMS and to make and receive voice calls in areas without mobile network coverage is under development by the research and development unit of Telefonica. An application will be installed on the mobile device; which will make the mobile communication possible.

A network will be formed by all mobile phone owners using this application, in which their phones would serve as signal repeaters. Direct wireless data connections will be established by the connectivity application, between two mobile devices that are relatively close to each other.

A network would also be formed by the devices in which two phones that are 100 meters away from each other could share data and voice calls without requiring coverage.