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

[Sonny Parafina]

3 (formerly Hutchison) offers an LBS service:

http://www.three.co.uk/news/h3gnews/pressnewsview.omp?collcid=1019745742912&
cid=1032281675791&index=1

sonny
  -----Original Message-----
  From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to
[mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to]On Behalf Of Mike Liebhold
  Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:40 PM
  To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
  Subject: Re: [Geowanking] mobile phone tracking services in US & UK?


  Hello Geowankers,

  I am trying to identify wireless carriers that offer location information
to client apps running on phones without gps, using e911, or cell tower
locations or (?). I've re-read  the threads from earlier this year on mobile
phone tracking in the US and the UK but found less information than I
remembered.

  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?

  Many thanks!

  Mike Liebhold

  affiliate researcher  Institute for the Future
  geospatial weblog:  Starhill Index









  Allen Smith wrote:

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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