[Geowanking] mobile phone tracking services in US & UK?

[Mike Liebhold]

Mike Liebhold wrote:

> I have heard, or seen, tangential mentions but no real confirmations 
> that Sprint, Verizon, Nextel, Orange, and T-mobile, and maybe others 
> all offer location coordinates to applications. Can any one confirm 
> any or all of  this with pointers to carrier developer or partner 
> support web sites for technical details and/or pricing?

Hello again,

If anyone is interested, I  googled a bit today, and found these:

Bell Canada has announced their 'My Finder 
<http://www.bell.ca/shop/application/commercewf?origin=noorigin.jsp&event=link%28goto%29&content=/jsp/content/personal/catalog/wireless/data/mobile_browser/myfinder/index.jsp&contentpage=home&ADV=MyFinder>' 
Service returning location info to users' handsets.

Sprint has signed separate alliances with Microsoft 
<http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/mls/sprint.mspx>, and  IBM 
<http://www.sprint.com/sprint/strategicalliances/ibm.html>   to provide 
location services infrastructure including location coordinates  as part 
of their Busines Mobility Framework" [.pdf]. 
<http://www.parlay.org/docs/may2004mm/Showcase_Presentations/Wednesday/02Sprint.pdf> 


Location middleware provider Webraska 
<http://www.webraska.com/Products/>,  is helping set up services for 
many carriers including Orange, O2, Vodafone, Telecom Italia Mobile, 
Bell Mobility, and Sensis (Telstra Group, Australia.) 
<http://www.webraska.com/Customers/>

While Skymo <http://www.skymo.com/Location/> is offering location 
services on O2, Vodafone, Orange, and TMobile for 10-13p. per location 
query. <http://www.skymo.com/Location/>

Yes, I know.some of these overlap and are tangential to my original 
questions. I'm still looking for more nitty gritty developer stuff & 
pricing for coordinates, and hoping that someone here knows more about 
carrier location coordinate services.

Cheers-

Mike



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> Mike Liebhold
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> Allen Smith wrote:
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>>There are a couple of companies that are trying to commercialize this
>>kind of service.  Check out http://www.uLocate.com
>>I wrote the J2ME code that sends the location info from the phones to
>>their server.  Currently only Nextel has opened up the three elements
>>neccessary to do this kind of service: 1) internet data service, 2)
>>ability to load a Java or Brew app on to the phone, 3) a GPS chipset
>>that a app can access
>>Allen
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>>Allen Smith 
>>Allen at gadgeteer.org 
>>Track my cell phone in real time 
>>http://www.gadgeteer.org
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