The Connected Traveler, Russell Johnson, interviewed Kwan Lee about “viral radio”:

Ma Bell must be soiling her knickers over schemes like Fluid Voice from MIT Media Lab (as if Skype wasn’t bad enough). The idea is that if you put enough viral radio-enabled cellphones in, say, a city they will, by themselves, create their own cellphone network. Practically, in cases such as Hurricane Katrina or the earthquake in Pakistan and India, lives might have been saved with such an instant communications infrastructure. As part of the radio show we did during CES in Las Vegas, we talked with Kwan Lee of MIT about the future of viral radios.
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