[Geowanking] Verizon Location Services Walled Garden

[Kevin Elliott]

Allan Doyle wrote:
> At Where 2.0 in 2005 (or was it 2006? - I'm pretty sure it was 05) the 
> Nextel people had the best LBS developer story. I just googled for 
> "nextel lbs developer" and this is the top result
>
> http://developer.sprint.com/site/global/develop/technologies/location_based_serv/p_lbs.jsp 
>
>
> Not that I'm particularly knowledgeable about any carrier-based LBS....

Yes, Sprint/Nextel seem to have one of the better LBS offerings, but 
we've heard too many fright stories about poor service to consider it as 
a serious network. I guess if LBS was the most important aspect when 
shopping for handsets, then it would be worth the sacrifice;  but if it 
doesn't work, it doesn't work, so who knows.

Kudos to them for spending the last 1-2 years trying to make GPS/GPS-A 
available to their clientèle though!

Kevin