the west is still wild...

BT

"BTIZ" wrote in message news:ly84d.106328
I get 30 miles out of town and my cell phone is toast...

BT

"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
58...
And you would be satisfied if the GPS only worked where there is cell
phone
coverage?


"William W. Plummer" wrote in
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$He1.339@attbi_s01:

Satellites are great for coverage but they are expensive to maintain
(
$1B per year). Would it be possible to use all those cell phone
towers
as GPS extensions, providing wide area coverage and increased
accuracy?
The satellite constellation would serve as the "backbone" which
provides accurate time and position information to all those cell
phone
towers, but within range, the cell phone towers will provide much more
accurate location info.