GPS-free cell phone?

[Rob Ransbottom]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I think you would have to check the specific cell phone both for date of 
> manufacture and possibly the seller. I suspect that most of the retailers 
> will try to sell their stock of the older phones until they are forced by law 
> to sell only the GPS enabled phones. 
> On 18 Oct 2001, at 10:46, Robert Brown wrote:

> > I currently do not own a cell phone, but, after attending Lar Kaufman's talk
> > last night, I'm now worried that the only available cell phones will have
> > GPS installed.  If I were to buy a cell phone today, would it have GPS
> > installed in it?  And, if so, how could I tell if it's the "privacy
> > invasive" GPS kind or not?

I agree with Jerry.  But for the paranoid it goes further than that.
All the major wireless providers are failing to meet the first gov deadline
for E911 location service.  So, perhaps, no one is really checking yet.

There are at least 5 competing technologies for pinpointing the location
of cell phones.  Some of them work with old phones, two of these
have been implemented on a large scale.

Look for prepay services, use folding money and wipe your prints.

rob                     Live the dream.


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