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GPS Meets PCS

Posted by timothy on from the big-brother-on-call-waiting-can-you-hold dept.

The Donald writes: "According to an article at News.com, Sprint PCS will be starting to implement E911 calls in Rhode Island sometime in October. The FCC required that all cell phone providers have an improved E911 system in place by October first. This is the first step in making the E911 a reality, with Sprint being the first major company to actually put a phone on the market that will work with E911; instead of just filing papers with the FCC saying the implementation is just to hard. The Samsung N300 phone will use GPS to track the people down. I like the idea, I just hope the phone will display the GPS information, and there is a way to opt-out for all of the location based advertisements you will get with your GPS enabled phone."

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  1. This is great! by plemeljr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad this wasn't around when the Soviets has Mir up, then the cosmonaouts could have called 911 when they got in trouble.

    Oh yeah, that was all the time.

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  2. Re:only for 911?? by dangermouse · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Yep. I'd use it to find my pants.