Using GPS to Track Cell Phones

 

Until just recently, in order to be able to use GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to track someone, you would have needed expensive hardware and software. Today, though, there are enTire full solutions readily available to allow the average consumer to use GPS even through a regular cellular Ph Meters or less.

In order to be able to comply with these FCC regulations, the cellular phone carriers decided that it was best to work the GPS technology into the mobile phone handsets themselves, instead of having to rebuild the enTire cellular network. However, it should be noted that the GPS technology that has been worked into cellular phones is not the same technology as is used by hikers and other people who live, work, or recreate in remote areas. The majority of cellular phones don't actually allow the user to access the GPS data directly. In order to determine an accurate location, the wireless network must be accessed, and this data will be transmitted only in the case when a 911 emergency phone call has been placed.

Therefore, not all cellular phones provide the ability for users to track someone by way of their phones unless their phone has a specific kind of technology, and is connected to the right kind of network, and is registered for the right kind of cellular service, then they won't be able to use the phone to directly track someone.

However, this does mean that if you do sign up to the right network with the right service and you use the right kind of phone technology, you will be able to track someone - including your child - very easily, no matter where they may be.

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