A recent article published in ABC news has revealed the development of new software that will enable mobile phones to function in areas where there is no reception whatsoever!

The Australian researchers, at Flinders University, behind this new software, which has already been tested in the South Australian desert, assure that mobile phones will now be able to work anywhere, potentially helping to save lives in times of disaster.

According to the head of the project, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen, the new software incorporates a compact version of a mobile phone tower into the device itself!

“With Haiti what was actually observed was that their mobile phone network and their landline phone network was essentially knocked out for the first 48 hours after the earthquake,” he said.

“The vast majority of the response to a disaster is actually from the local people there, so if we can provide them with ease of communications as soon as possible after the earthquake, not 48 hours, not 72 hours but potentially minutes after a disaster, then we can help them to start rescuing people from rubble and generally rebuilding, maintaining law and order.”

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