What is a "Cell Phone Triangulation Accuracy"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.
What is cell phone triangulation and how does it work?
Cell phone triangulation or cell tower triangulation is similar to GPS tracking in many ways. Multiple towers are used to track the phone’s location by measuring the time delay that a signal takes to return back to the towers from the phone. This delay is then calculated into distance and gives a fairly accurate location of the phone.How accurate is a cell phone signal with only two towers?
With the signal direction plus the distance of the phone from the cell tower, accuracy might be pretty good, even with only two towers. However, there are many places where there are fewer cell towers available, such as in the fringes of the cities and out in the country.How accurate is GPS on a cell phone?
Some of the newest cell phones can actually report a GPS location, and this is quite accurate, and doesn’t rely on the cell towers at all. Using cell tower triangulation (3 towers), it is possible to determine a phone location to within an area of “ about ” ¾ square mile.What is cell tower triangulation?
Cell phones equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) capability, use signals from satellites to pinpoint location very accurately. The second, and less-accurate method is often called “Cell Tower Triangulation”, referring to how the cell towers which receive a phone’s signal may be used to calculate its geophysical location.
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