Re: Position escrow

Regardless of the type of phone, the cell stations can be designed to do time-of-arrival comparisons on the signal transmitted from the phone and calculate a reasonably accurate position. If you don't want your location known, don't transmit.

Ultimately, this is true. But there's still a practical difference between having to do it with a labor-intensive manual process like "foxhunting" and making it automatic and routine on a large scale. Phil