By Tim Ferguson
Published: Thursday 09 August 2007
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Name
Mike Grenville
Location
Forest Row
Occupation
mobile journalist
Comment
So why is it that most of the LBS companies offering child tracking services are no longer around?
Maybe it is because the idea and reality are not the same as the level of accuracy offered by mobile triangulation is not enough to be useful to a parent, even in urban areas.
This would be different with GPS but only a few phones have it. And how many kids would actually consent to their parents knwoing which side of the road they were on unless they were so scared of going out alone that they probably shouldn't.
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