Gotcha. I read your post wrong.

The phones are one reason I don’t think Meshtastic is good for emergency communications. My main Meshtastic devices run off a battery pack that can run them for 2-3 weeks, but I’d also have to keep a phone charged throughout the disaster to use them.

You don’t need cell towers. Your phone is just used as an input device for the radio.

I never would have thought it possible that a person could be so full of themselves to say something like that