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| Aug 25, 2011 at 11:54 | comment | added | Piskvor left the building | "nearly every cell phone contains a GPS receiver for E911 services" That is pure misinformation, plain and simple - the majority of cellphones do not contain a GPS receiver, especially not the older and/or low-end models (smartphones are a different thing altogether). The "location information" required by E911 is provided from cell phone base station identifiers, on phones lacking GPS. (What you'd expect is somewhat irrelevant to what actually exists out there) | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 17:43 | history | answered | afrazier | CC BY-SA 3.0 |