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orangepurple on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: France passes bill to allow police remotely activa...

You experienced a type 0 SMS. It can wake the GPS on a modern phone and return a GPS ___location.

Last time I checked cell tower triangulation is accurate to between a few hundred and a few thousand feet. Cellular A-GPS can be good to within a few feet inside houses usually but often its within a few tens of feet in accuracy.

mcpackieh on July 6, 2023 [–]

> Last time I checked cell tower triangulation is accurate to between a few hundred and a few thousand feet

That was about what LTE could do. With 4G, they got it down to 20-50 meters. Now they can do much better.

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