Simon

Cumbria

IT

Well if they try to track anything round here they'll find that it keeps disappearing and reappearing 'in the general area of ...'. One thing they aren't going to get is a location down to a few hundred meters - "somewhere in the general vicinity of <some town>" is likely to be the best they can do.

Why, well to get a 'fix' needs a minimum of two, and preferably three base stations to be in contactable range. Round here you are lucky to be able to contact one base - on any network.

Oh yes, and call me paranoid if you like, but how long before the government make it a requirement to give your national ID number to the network operator, and for the networks to tell the government where you are ? The way this lot are going, it won't be long.