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Old 11-08-2011, 07:58 AM  
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
Right, so they don't know where you are then. They know what cell you are in. Where I live a cell is many many miles wide. So, not really much use.

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no

the way it works is say your in spot a

around you are antinas

what it does is work out how far you are from each antini (from what i remeber).

from this it calculates your location.

a bit like gps. gps works in reverse. the satalites simply send out a constent sygnal. your gps gets the sygnal from as many satalits as it can. from this it calculates the distance it is from each satalight. from this it can calculate its position.
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