[79258] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Fri Apr 1 13:20:14 2005
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:15:03 +0100
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Alexander Kiwerski <akiwerski@telwestservices.com>,
'Adi Linden' <adil@adis.on.ca>, 'Stephen Sprunk' <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com,
'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes' <nanog@merit.edu>,
Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200504011805.j31I5YJP015881@twsrv01.telwestonline.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--On 01 April 2005 10:05 -0800 Alexander Kiwerski
<akiwerski@telwestservices.com> wrote:
> And for the record, the GPS locators currently in cell phones tend *not*
> to work indoors, so even if you are lucky enough to live in an area where
> E911 is plugged into your cell phone carrier's locator service, you still
> have a high probability of being screwed.
No idea why this is relevant to NANOG, but cell phone location works by
cell triangulation, not by GPS. So if the cell phone is working indoors,
the locator service should work.
Alex
