This proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, uses wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity peer-to-peer without an internet connection. Due to its Wi-Fi-less capability, it has become a major hit in 2014 due to governmental restrictions of the Internet in Iraq, and later on in the Hong Kong protests. Downloaded more than 100,000 times a day in Hong Kong alone, name this app.
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=> FireChat
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