[Geowanking] Cell Tower IDs

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Joshua Schachter wrote:

> > thing is that you would need a phone on each of the major networks to
> > pick up their IDs. That seems to significantly fragment any grassroots
> > effort...
>
> What phones report this at all? I bet there's quite a lot of separation
> between the phone hardware and the actual Java/Symbian/etc runtimes.

Quite a few of the GSM phones need little more than dialing the right
magic number, or be able to/fro send an SMS to their java sim API.

Dw