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Re: GPS and cell phones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Fri May 12 01:25:54 2000
From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Flanagannn@aol.com, cb@fipr.org, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk,
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Bill Stewart writes:
> That doesn't mean that the author isn't mixing up two concepts -
> GPS vs cell phone location by the phone system's signalling.
> GPS burns too much power to be used in typical cellphones -
I'd like to point out an emerging technology (based on digital pulse
radio, implementable in SiGe processes) which could create a very
low-power high-accuracy (cm range) realtime (multiple fixes/s) global
or local positioning system, using the cellphone handsets themselves,
and the base stations.
http://www.aetherwire.com/Aether_Wire/aether.html
