TerraNet - a mesh network based on mobile phones

Serendipity led me from a short BBC World Service piece flowing from the ALT conference to TerraNet AB. a Swedish start-up that has developed a way of enabling mobile phones to communicate directly with each other (rather than via the operator's network of masts) and with the internet via any internet-connected device fitted with a TerraNet USB interface. The TerraNet web site, from where the images above are taken, is short on detail, but the interview with TerraNet founder Anders Carlius (whose LinkedIn profile pulls no punches), a few minutes into this BBC Podcast, is worth listening to.