GPS Cellphone Tracking - Track Anyone Anytime Anywhere

Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
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Why would market forces drive out the Non-GPS phones? Most people
don't use the GPS chip in the phone. The requirement for location is
there because the feds said it needed to be there and most people
who do care just want 911 to know where they are. They could care
less how 911 knows where they are.

You totally missed the point.

Almost no one, as in regular people, is going to use the GPS chip in
the phone for anything. If phones start getting a GPS display, that
will change. I wouldn't think it will take long for that to happen.

The point is a big portion of the major carriers are going with GPS
technology.

To get on their network you will need a GPS phone. When your current
none-GPS phone dies, you will need to replace it with a GPS phone.

Even if you go with AT&T, if you want the ability to roam on other
carriers, you will need a GPS phone.

Do you have a cite for your assertion that AT&T non-gps phones won't be able
to roam on gps enabled systems?

Not offhand, but it is my understanding that after some cutoff date,
you won't be able to use a none-GPS phone on a GPS network at all.

You are free to research this at http://www.fcc.gov and show me that
I am wrong about this.

As time passes, the MAKERS of phones are more likely to make one
type of phone that contains both the GPS chip and the triangulation
stuff simply because it will be easier to support one manufacturing
line rather than two.

You might be right there but AT&T is a pretty big client and if they, for
whatever reason, don't want the chip I'd be willing to bet that they have
the pull to get the phones without the chip.

My bet is they'll use whatever is available at a reasonable price and
will care less if the phone has features unused on their network.


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Jim Pennino

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Not offhand, but it is my understanding that after some cutoff date,
you won't be able to use a none-GPS phone on a GPS network at all.

You are free to research this at http://www.fcc.gov and show me that
I am wrong about this.



Come on Jim you know the rules. If you make a statement it's up to you to
provide the cite.

Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
wrote:

Not offhand, but it is my understanding that after some cutoff date,
you won't be able to use a none-GPS phone on a GPS network at all.

You are free to research this at http://www.fcc.gov and show me that
I am wrong about this.



Come on Jim you know the rules. If you make a statement it's up to you to
provide the cite.

In the words of Bud Abbott, I'm a bad boy.

Third base.

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Jim Pennino

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:15:00 GMT, wrote:


So, not too far in the future, you will be able to listen to
the Grand Canyon Suite on your phone MP3 player while taking
pictures of the Grand Canyon on your phone, e-mailing the pictures
to Aunt Agatha from your phone, while noting your precise location
on the GPS display on your phone for future reference (Aunt Agatha,
this is the spot to go to) all while getting the ball game scores.

From what guys at the chip makers are telling me, you can already buy
phones that do all that and more in storefront shops in Seoul and
Shanghai. But the North American market is too small, the churn too
slow, and the infrastructure too anitquated compared to Asia to be of
much concern to cellphone makers. Still, the new phones will have all
that stuff in firmware -- it costs too muchto make different chips for
different markets -- but the carriers here won't implement it.

Don

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
they have
the pull to get the phones without the chip.


Do you have a cite for your assertion?

Jules wrote:


Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
they have
the pull to get the phones without the chip.


Do you have a cite for your assertion?

Low blow.

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Jim Pennino

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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
wrote:

Not offhand, but it is my understanding that after some cutoff
date, you won't be able to use a none-GPS phone on a GPS network at
all.

You are free to research this at http://www.fcc.gov and show me
that I am wrong about this.



Come on Jim you know the rules. If you make a statement it's up to
you to provide the cite.

In the words of Bud Abbott, I'm a bad boy.

Third base.


That was Lou Costello!.

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Marty Shapiro
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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
wrote:

Not offhand, but it is my understanding that after some cutoff
date, you won't be able to use a none-GPS phone on a GPS network at
all.

You are free to research this at http://www.fcc.gov and show me
that I am wrong about this.



Come on Jim you know the rules. If you make a statement it's up to
you to provide the cite.

In the words of Bud Abbott, I'm a bad boy.

Third base.


That was Lou Costello!.

Doh!


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Jim Pennino

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"Thomas Borchert" wrote

Morgans,

I was wrong. Sorry!

No problem.

I thought I was wrong one time, but I was mistaken! g

I appreciate the honesty and apology, although it was not really necessary.

So things are different over there, as far as phones and GPS go?

What is the European, or national systems for emergency calls? Anything
like 911 over there?
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Jim in NC

Morgans,

What is the European, or national systems for emergency calls? Anything
like 911 over there?

Sure. But every country has its own number/system. The cell phone systems
used here allow triangulation. However, it is not routinely used for
emergencies. While people buy cell phones with GPS in them for navigation
purposes, I don't think having GPS in all of them would go through with the
public here.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)