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Do you think they can't triangulate you with their cell tower info, especially with the tiny 5G cells?
Every cell registration that occurs provides that much more triangulation data.
Now with decades of data from towers, phones and actual GPS data the accuracy is equivalent to GPS.
The article mentions that.
But IMO, it's kind of insane that the protocol also kind of forces your phone to send GPS coordinates over... Like.... How the Frick is that necessary and justified at all and became part of the protocol?
I believe it is for beam forming (the tower needs to know where to send the signal)
But it does not work when GPS is disabled on your phone. So, it normally has to work without it.