Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

At 09:00 AM 15/09/2015, Tom Worthington wrote: >The Federal Government has obtained increased powers to carry out >surveillance of citizens in cases of terrorism, but it takes five days >to triangulate the signals from cell towers to find someone in danger? I had a similar experience at the

Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

On 12 September 2015 at 14:09, Roger Clarke wrote: > > > I'm wondering how come it took 5 extra days to get "more precise > information on where her phone last contacted a tower". > > My guess is she is a Telstra customer so the connection to Black Mountain tower was

Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

On 12/09/15 14:09, Roger Clarke wrote: > A young woman was missing for 6 days just outside Canberra. ... I'm > wondering how come it took 5 extra days to get "more precise > information on where her phone last contacted a tower". ... Yes, fortunately there was no fatality, but as a result there

[LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

A young woman was missing for 6 days just outside Canberra. Within 24 hours of her being reported missing, it was established that her mobile phone was last activated at 11:33am, 8km west of Black Mountain Tower. (This is in the Molonglo River valley - mostly open country, but pretty steep in