What about this potential...?
I love the 20-$30BILLION Part,QcomGSM>......
applications in the GSM environment, with callers typically pinpointed to within 5-20 meters. During the trials, mobile users were guided to featured points of interest and to hotels, ATMs, nightclubs and tourist attractions closest to their calling locations. Recent studies by Strategis Group indicate that the wireless location services market could generate as much as $20 to $30 billion per year in revenues for European carriers and vendors by 2005. )))))Holy Smokes((((((
(this never made the NEWSWIRES !!!)
The SnapTrack GSM Test Group consortium, formed more than a year ago, collectively supports over 30 million subscribers. Publicly disclosed members include Vodafone AirTouch Communications PLC (UK and US), BellSouth Mobility DCS (US), BT Cellnet (UK), Esat Digifone (Ireland), France Telecom (France), Omnitel Pronto Italia (Italy), T-Mobil (Germany), Telecel (Portugal) and Telefonica (Spain), and applications developer SignalSoft (UK and US). Prototype handsets will be provided to the consortium for the field trials.
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From the press release
library.northernlight.com.
Qcom's SnapTrack's technology products permit the design of cellular phones, pagers, PDAs, and other wireless devices that operate in multiple GPS navigation modes, allowing out-of-network location coverage and a variety of thin-client applications. SnapTrack's wireless location technology products require no additional cell sites or modifications to existing network equipment and are designed to have minimal impact on cost and handset form factor. Furthermore, SnapTrack's technology is air-interface neutral and is applicable in any two-way wireless system: cellular/PCS, satellite, or paging; 800/900 MHz or 1800/1900 MHz; GSM, CDMA, TDMA, PDC or 3G air interfaces. |
