As someone (like many of us) who had phones pre-smartphone, it's pretty obvious to me that switching location services off was only to prevent apps from doing s

As someone (like many of us) who had phones pre-smartphone, it's pretty obvious to me that switching location services off was only to prevent apps from doing so. Your carrier has in my mind, always been able to determine your location. We had movies doing triangulation based on phone calls to catch criminals. The guy who wrote the article was 21, so it's not a stretch to think they only grew up in the smartphone world and didn't have that base understanding.