Why FireChat was used in Hong Kong and is successful with crowds
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Open Garden, FireChat’s creator has a long history in building peer-to-peer mesh networking technologies to improve access to the Internet. Open Garden first iterations in mobile apps on Android were Open Garden Tether and Open Garden Mesh. Both of these apps reached millions of users and have been used to move tons of data on mobile devices and have been enabling access for free when carriers were charging for tethering.