Wireless comunication peer to peer

An iPhone has a few ways of communicating with other devices wirelessly:

Cellular Network
WiFi (inc Peer-to-Peer)
Bluetooth
NFC (not useful here)

Is there any way to use Cellular Network without provider (Ex: at&t )to make peer to peer connection between devices ?(without public internet connection) same as multipeer connectivity but with Cellular Network.

iPhone X, iOS 11.2.1

Posted on Mar 1, 2018 10:14 AM

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Mar 1, 2018 11:00 AM in response to kote.caava

No. If you don't have a provider, the only thing your phone will connect to the cellular network for is calling 911.

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