tired of paying for txting? now here's an idea ......

While browsing through a tech news site, i picked up on this

 "Peer-to-Peer Gaming
Qualcomm will be pushing peer-to-peer gaming into smartphones next year, and this could spell the end for most standalone gaming systems. This will allow people to engage others (think kids) in games without running up data charges, since the phones talk directly to each other, and gaming may be faster as well, because there is no network latency."



well that will cut down on teenagers' texting bills,  thought I, since most of the time they are within range of each other  - and that led to another thought

 - with the density of cellphones in a town, who needs cellphone towers - why cant we just bounce texts between each other all the way to their destination? in effect an ad-hoc mesh network?  Couldn't we use the same protocols as the internet uses for tcp/ip route discovery?

Sure, we'd need good encryption, but it would cost zero to txt!

So I did some googling, and sure enough, someone has already thought of it

I'm off to buy some shares!