[thelist] wireless thinking aloud

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Thu Mar 29 07:49:48 CST 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Area code isn't accurate enough for many applications - you'd want a 100m
accuracy or better. But there is more data than you see (from
triangulation) -
don't know how accurate it is.

Cheers
Martin




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From: "Peter Van Dijck" <peter at vardus.com>


> Does anyone have info on this (technical)? Would it be possible to build
> something like this today (maybe with a wap phone)? Would location based
> tracking be worldwide?

A lot of the mobile phones I've seen tell you the local area code for where
they are. (I may be wrong but...) I believe its done with triangulation
between the phone masts. Couldn't this info be used?




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