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Cell towers do not "pump out" location. Your phone queries Google/Apple/Mozilla/OpenCellID/whatever with the IDs of the towers it sees, the service returns appr
by floatboth 7y ago
Cell towers do not "pump out" location. Your phone queries Google/Apple/Mozilla/OpenCellID/whatever with the IDs of the towers it sees, the service returns approximate location based on its database of towers' locations. Same is done with WiFi SSIDs.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoAs a metaphor for triangulation, "cell towers pump out location" is a passable first-order approximation, even though the infrastructure is far more complex.