GPS is mandated in Cell Phones for 911 purposes. The triangulation requires
special coordination too time consuming for the volume of Cellular 911
calls.
"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated that all cell phone
providers have the technology in place to provide Enhanced 911 (E911)
service, giving emergency operators the caller's physical location, by 2004,
and 95% of phones are required to be GPS-enabled by the end of 2005. All
cell phones being sold now by major providers contain the GPS technology. If
you have an older phone that doesn't support GPS, it won't be turned off,
but when you go to replace it, you'll get a GPS-capable phone."
Mike M.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jon.the.Wise
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:01 AM
To: LandSpeed
Subject: Re: OT - Non LSR
> As for cellphones -- do they really have GPS stuff imbedded? I know
> that the very nature of cellphone systems allows location of the
> 'phone by triangulating from the multiple towers that can hear any
> particular cellphone at any one time, and that location can be pretty
accurate.
> That being the case, why bother putting GPS parts inside?
>
> Inquiring mind (not wearing a foil helmet just now) wants to know!
Some do. My samsung had gps, you could turn it off to save battery power
though, and that's how it always is. My current nokia doesn't though.
Eventually they're all supposed to, because the triangulation is fairly
accurate, but not perfect, and gps is within a few feet usually...
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