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| Subject: | MobileLBSList: How do location based services work? |
| Date: |
09/17/2000 05:37:42 AM |
| From: |
Manoj Sharma |
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Hi,
I have a few basic questions about location based services that I haven't
been yet able to find the answers to. I was wondering if anybody knows
answers to them:
1) Will a third party be able to find out the location of the person, given
his mobile phone number?
Will there be a service, (a "whereis" service, on the same lines as the
whois service :) to lookup the position information by entering the phone
number?
Privacy issues apart, there are real needs for a service such as this one.
Enterprises, for example, would want to know the location of their service
engineers at any given time to tell them about nearby customers that have a
service request.Will this information be available for charge? What will be
the criteria to allow someone to access this information about a given
person?
2) Will there be a service that lets you know whenever any person with a
cell phone (or a person whose cell -phone number is known) enters a given
area/zone? Retailers who want to know who all present in the vicinity can
use this service to generate dicount coupons, for example. These can be
accessed on-demand by the person when he enters the shop. Again, what will
be the cost of the information, and what will be the criteria to allow
access to this information?
3) When will location based service availability be common? I am aware that
E-911 phase II has to be implemented by October 2001. How many carriers are
likely to successfully do so?
Thanks,
-manoj
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