[telecom] Re: Wireless and 911

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using a tower-based system which does not require GPS-capable phones.

That was the temporary work around. Now all cell phones have GPS receivers in them.>>

Continuing to claim that they do does not make it so. The only handsets that have GPS built in as part of the standard is CDMA handsets. GSM handsets do not natively have GPS and instead rely on triangulation for PSAPs to locate them.

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