| The development of communications technology | | | | useful feature to the emergency services or |
| has long since surpassed the sole ability to access | | | | police when responding to a 911 call from a GPS |
| others when they are mobile. Today, mobile | | | | cell phone. For this reason, the FCC has legislated |
| communication devices are becoming much more | | | | that wireless networks provide location |
| technologically advanced and offer more than the | | | | information for 911 calls made from cell phones. |
| ability to just carry on a conversation. Cell phone | | | | These are known as E911 calls.As technology |
| GPS tracking is one of those advances.GPS or | | | | advance even further, future features will be |
| Global Positioning System tracks your location by | | | | even more powerful. Imagine GPS cell phones |
| interpreting the data received from 3 or more | | | | used as a navigational device. Based on the cell |
| satellites. This has made GPS a popular feature in | | | | phone GPS tracking signal, they could be used to |
| cars as a navigational aid.All cell phones constantly | | | | find your way to a location, calculate your speed |
| broadcast a radio signal, even when not on a call. | | | | based on your location change over time, from |
| The cell phone companies have been able to | | | | this calculate your estimated arrival time, suggest |
| estimate the location of a cell phone for many | | | | an alternative route and even phone the person |
| years using triangulation information from the | | | | you are calling to see with your ETA! Of course in |
| towers receiving the signal. However, the | | | | car GPS navigation systems can already perform |
| introduction of GPS technology into cell phones | | | | many of these tasks, however it is the portability |
| has meant that cell phone GPS tracking now | | | | of cell phones that makes them so useful for this |
| makes this information a lot more accurate.With | | | | technology.Cell phone GPS tracking could also be |
| GPS technology now more commonplace in many | | | | used to locate the whereabouts of your children |
| new cell phones, this means that the location of | | | | and offer protection to elderly relatives should |
| anyone carrying a compatible cell phone can be | | | | something happen and they need urgent |
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