I thought MLS had no interest in pure cell tower locations? I once brought up a website that people are using to publish/collect exact cell tower locations to you and you said that MLS isn't interested in them...
Pls clarify your opinion on this ;) Or weren't you interested in the idea of making a separate database for that? Regards, Felix On 4. September 2014 15:33:02 MESZ, Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]> wrote: >On 04.09.2014, at 15:21 , Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: >> Every mobile company will have its own internal database of where its >> cells are and what their identifiers are. >> >> Why do we not make it a condition of launching with a particular >partner >> that they contribute this data to MLS? After all, particularly if MLS >is >> the location system on their phone, it's clearly in their best >interest >> to do so. > >We have been talking to some of our partners, but so far they are all >reluctant to share their cell tower locations with us. The mobile space >is one that is extremely private and cautious. > >One typical concern is that operators don’t want their competitors to >know, where they lack good network coverage. As the competition might >use that information to specifically target users in those areas and >convince them to switch the operator. > >We’ll keep pushing on this, highlighting that their users would get a >better location service as a result of data sharing with us. But in >most cases the location service in Firefox OS phones is not provided by >us but by other commercial partners. So in most cases sharing data with >us doesn’t give the operators a direct and clear advantage. > >And than in some cases we don’t actually have a partnership with the >operators, but merely with ODM/OEM’s launching devices without the >phones being bound to one operator. > >Hanno >_______________________________________________ >dev-geolocation mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
