Mobile Location
A labs.ericsson.com enabler
http://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/

Mobile Location
There are a number of ways to find the position of an
end-user’s mobile phone, one of those is cell-ID which
is the basis for this first step of the Mobile Location API.
An API for translating a cell-ID from a mobile phone
network into a geographical position
Positioning that can be used for any device that
supports reading of cell-ID
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Why Mobile Location?
Positioning for any device that supports reading the cell-ID of
the network cell that the user is currently registered to
Supported by Java ME, Android, Symbian, S60, Windows Mobile
and more
No GPS or other positioning technology needed
No dependancy on the mobile operator network
Mobile Location cell-ID Look-up provides positioning for
location based applications available for most mobile
platforms
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Main Features of Mobile Location
Simple web service for translating cell-IDs to into
geographical positions
Access to a cell-ID database with global coverage
Free to use for any developer of mobile applications
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Mobile Location Overview
Retrieve the cell-ID from
the device your application
is running on
• Cell-ID Look-up finds
• You get the cell-ID the position of that
from the user’s device cell
Use the Cell-ID Lookup API and send it to cell-ID
• Cell-ID Look-up
to translate the Cell-ID Look-up
sends the location to
into a geographical you
position
cell-ID cell-ID
DB
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Mobile Location API
Retrieve the location of your users with a simple call to the
Mobile Location API
Example request:
http://cellid.labs.ericsson.net/xml/lookup?cellid=0008c257&mnc=08&mcc=240&l
ac=017c&key=YOUR_API_KEY
Results in:
<position>
<accuracy>382.0</accuracy>
<latitude>59.40364456176758</latitude>
<longitude>17.94533348083496</longitude>
<name>Helenelund (Kista), SE</name>
</position>
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