Thursday 7 February 2013

The Truth Regarding The Cell Phone Tracker

By Eppy Quinn


In this modern age, it's almost impossible to do away with cellular phones. Such gadgets have become a significant part of human living and thus, they hold important info, not just about our everyday life but also our recent whereabouts.

Naturally, it isn't unusual that many persons would want to know the whereabouts of these devices for a myriad of motives. Whether or not they are for parents to trace the location of their kids, for business owners of trucking services to monitor their delivery vehicles, or for employers to monitor their personnel in a business trip, the cell phone tracker is growing in popularity.

What exactly is a mobile phone tracker and how does it work?

Phone spying is a technique of finding out the whereabouts of a certain cell phone with various technological means, regardless of the cell phone being still or mobile. A cellular phone normally can be tracked by finding out the gap between the strength of the transmission which it emits and the closest antenna with it.

There are four standard methods to track a cellular phone: network-based, handset-based, sim-based and hybrid.

For the network-based to be effective, an individual must acquire the cooperation of the network of the cell phone to be able to set up a process, like mobile phone identification, triangulation, as well as timing methods. Imagine two antennas interacting with each other as they identify where the signal from the mobile phone being searched is received from. Usually, people who get their own phones lost use this method since a person would have to come up with a valid reason for asking help from the service provider for finding the cell phone. Just think of the privacy disasters if everyone who wishes to have a mobile phone monitored were granted the opportunity to make use of this method.

The handset-based approach requires the setting up of a cellular phone tracker into the handset that should be tracked. These types of trackers usually are obtainable online. This approach will be tricky for many people, especially if the holder of the cellular phone doesn't prefer his gadget to be monitored. This is because first of all, the application has to be installed in the handset. The application then provides you access to a website that could reveal the actual whereabouts of the phone, and even the inbound and outgoing calls and text messages. For moms and dads, this can be a very helpful program for finding out whether or not the children are safe.

The sim-based is just self-explanatory. The SIM card gives data like cell identification, round trip time and transmission power to a network, which may now be monitored. The only problem is that the SIM card has to be inserted into the device whenever used because if not, it beats the objective of being traced.

Lastly, the hybrid is a mixture of the network-based and the handset based approaches.

The common concern which mobile phone tracking must tackle is privacy. In some places such as the States, their regulations on telecom privacy are mostly lenient. European countries are quite rigid. However, China even encourages the tracking of their citizens.




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