Re: Re: Tracking a mobile phone

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Angelo Zanetti wrote:
Marcus Bointon wrote:

On 18 Jul 2005, at 20:56, Sebastian wrote:

The phone would have to have GPS capabilities..

Not true. The network knows what cell the phone is in(and cells are pretty small in cities), and it knows where the cell is. This is the mechanism that's used for location dependent services (especially directions and local maps) that are currently being pushed in the UK.

Whether you can get access to that information is another matter, especially internationally.


yeah Marcus is correct. the carriers will have that info but probably
wont allow you to see it. But in theory it should work.


I'm not sure why this two-month-old topic has been dredged up, but I believe that if you can install a custom Java (or similar) app on the mobile then you can (at least in NZ) easily find out the "name" of the cell that the phone is in (for example "Cathedral Square" here in Christchurch, New Zealand) but I'm not so sure about location. And some cell names are pretty vague ("Christchurch East").

Anyway, this is a bit OT now...

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