Rios: Bridgefy reached 1.5M downloads in Ukraine within 48 hours
Jorge Rios · Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication? · Sep 18, 2024 · at 9:07
Bridgefy founder Jorge Rios explains the surge in adoption for offline mesh networking during wartime communications breakdowns.
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“And just the first 48 hours that the Ukraine war was declared, we got 1.5 million downloads in Ukraine only.”
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