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To: Helgo Wiberg who wrote (70)	8/18/1999 10:00:00 AM
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Helgo & All; I recently received the following, in response to some questions about Technor's technology. (I have reformatted the reply, slightly ) -- As for how the technology works, it does not need GPS. We do have one industrial terminal, the GT-3, which has optional GPS capability, but for our cellular phone positioning solution, GPS is not at all involved. We use an unmodified GSM network, vendor independent, and this is not an overlay system (where base stations in the network have to be modified - very costly and time consuming). As you know from following Technor, this technology is in full commercial deployment and has been for three years, and yes, it certainly does use more than one basestation. Positioning services are delivered over the Internet through our web application. I'll have a demo of that up on our websites soon. The web application is rich in features that are customer-driven, things customers have requested as very useful. Incidentally, our web application is built to work independent of the positioning system used, so in the future, our web application could be used with a non-CellPoint positioning platform. Other concepts that have been brought to us are hybrid positioning platforms, where our technology is used in urban areas and something like (just for example) an Ericsson MPC is used in rural areas, but our web application delivers the services. In that type of scenario, we'd cover 80% of the geography and have the i.e. Ericsson system backing up that last 20% in the 'boonies'. (We get 100% geographic coverage Day One already, as you probably know) The reasoning behind possible hybrid solutions in the future is just for better accuracy in the remote areas, with some affordability for the operator (total overlays are very expensive). As GSM grows to half a billion users by 2005, networks become more and more built out along the way so our products only get better. See strategis.com Press Releases, May 28, 1998. Some good stats there, and the numbers for GSM keep getting bigger as newer data is published. Best of luck today [ tomorrow too :-) ], Mardy.