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> Cell phone location by cell phone radio towers (not GPS or wifi) is terribly inaccurate. Do you speak about this from hearsay or based in some actual involve
by zkms 9y ago
> Cell phone location by cell phone radio towers (not GPS or wifi) is terribly inaccurate.
Do you speak about this from hearsay or based in some actual involvement in the mobile telephony industry? I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say if it's the latter.
- 75dvtwin 9y agonormally a mobile operator would not know the 'GPS' location of a person. Just the tower IDs they were connected to. And that connection could be several kilometers away from the person. Operator knows probably the strength of signal and may be other characteristics of the devices, that would help to reduce the possible radius. But I doubt it is anywhere near as precise as GPS. GPS location, of course is much more precise, and is likely collected by say google maps or other installed apps, if maps is turned on.
- petre 9y ago> But I doubt it is anywhere near as precise as GPS. It's not. It can be off by several kilometers. Wifi is more precise due to many wifi APs and lower access radius.
- user5994461 9y agoIndustry. That's too long to explain in a message but that looks like a nice subject to cover in a future blog post.
- zkms 9y agoLet me know if you have stuff to say about that subject, it's something of quite a bit of interest to me, and I'd be eager to read about it.