The linked article talks of "forcing" carriers into this. The "trueposition.com" web site makes it clear that they ship their hardware ("TruePosition Location

The linked article talks of "forcing" carriers into this. The "trueposition.com" web site makes it clear that they ship their hardware ("TruePosition Location Measurement Units") ostensibly for 9-1-1-from-mobile purposes. For that reason (and others) it seems to me extremely likely that carriers don't need to be forced to support mass tracking at all. It's already there or easily slipped in. (The TruePosition platform does not rely exclusively on the Location Measurement Units.) Heh.... This merits looking into: http://www.trueposition.com/web/guest/press-releases?p_p_id=62_INSTANCE_lSc3&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_count=1&_62_INSTANCE_lSc3_struts_action=%2Fjournal_articles%2Fview&_62_INSTANCE_lSc3_groupId=10124&_62_INSTANCE_lSc3_articleId=28427&_62_INSTANCE_lSc3_version=1.0 http://www.trueposition.com/web/guest/press-releases?p_p_id=... Here (about that): http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/23/iphone-congress-mobile-technology-cellphones.html http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/23/iphone-congress-mobile-tech...