New Cell Phone Communications Paradigm? (Score 2, Interesting)

It is time the Open Source community created portable software for cell phones that allowed an informal zeroconf network to form when any capable phone was in contact with each other. Using p2p technology like BitTorrent, and from stuff like Tor, this ad-hoc network could blanket a large area REGARDLESS of service from cell phone towers, and route messages and data to and from users of the system, and over the internet. For example... Out of a group of a dozen cell phones, two have a WIFI connection at hotspots, 4 are in communications range of the two with wifi, and the other 6 are in range with the previous 4. Like the cross-continental BBS messaging system of 'yore... and the Torrent systems of today, the network information would route itself in a decentralized manner over whatever available means existed. Without having to pay a monthly service... just having this software... you could get: VOIP over internet at WIFI, or if latency is low enough. VOIP and Video Conferecing over the network... similiar to Skype. Texts/IM/email/ringtones/games/etc via WiFi or routed decentralized over network. If this software was completely open, and it was adopted by major manufactures (who didn't have an interest in the current service modal), critical mass could be reached and we could have a FREE AS IN BEER communication system. As storage space becomes more prevalent on these cell phones... software like asterisk can be used to increase features... voicemail 'in' your cell phone, etc not from a big service company. The technology, while young, exists that we can have a FREE COMMUNICATIONS system without the need of traditional cellular infrastructure. How liberating would this be for humanity?