The Motorola sponsored "world record" was made possible by a Chinese mobile base station installed with a line of sight to the north ridge.

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But Aeromobile's technology involves installing a small mobile base station on board to manage signal strength, and ensure calls do not interfere with flight systems.

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The device pretends to be a base station so that your mobile attempts to contact with it rather than the real tower.

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After explaining the basic process by which mobile phones authenticate then get an open channel on a GSM base station or network tower, the Grugq then offered up a series of ways that this process could be thwarted.

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"We've shrunk a 30-foot base station into a three-inch Raspberry Pi and created our own mobile phone network, " said PA's Frazer Bennett.

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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.

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It promises to be the fastest network yet, providing fixed and mobile broadband service and can deliver up to 40 megabits per second per channel up to 30 miles away from a base station.

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