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Track Phone Number Location

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With the development of sophisticated smartphones and also more enhance mobile operating system, the ability to track your smartphones are getting less and less complicated. Gone were the days where once you lost your phone, there is minimal hope that you can ever get it back. With the addition of GPS technology in your smartphones, it opens up various functions and also inventions of new application based on this old technology.

With GPS, you can get to where you want to go without getting lost, finding favourite restaurants and stores nearby and also for health reasons such as tracking your movement or daily exercise. With GPS also there are some apps that can now even track or locate the number that is calling you and get it located.

There are several companies that are offering this services to track the phone number location for a fee such as LocAid (USA) or Bharatiya Mobile (India). There are also some applications developed by programmer to locate a phone number and this applications can be found in Google Play as well as Apple store.

However, if there is no commercial providers that are providing this services in your country, you can always check with your network operator for this services. The network operator sometimes charge a fee for this services or they can also provide it for free sometimes. The network operator can also track the cell phones by just using the IMEI number. This is due to the fact that each cell phones have a unique IMEI number in which it can be trace back to the nearest cell tower and also their GPS signals. The accuracy of this services to track a phone number to a specific location depends as many factors are involved.

For instance, if a smartphone has enabled its Location Sharing or GPS settings, it may be possible to track the smartphones to its exact location. However, if the GPS is turn off, another way of locating that number is by using the Triangulation Tower method. The method of tracking the phone number triangulation is by using the nearest tower to the signal of the phone and through triangulation of signal strength with the three nearest towers, you can measure the nearest distance of that mobile phone and its location.

However, not many countries offers the ability for any users to track a particular phone number locations. This depends on the seriousness of the government of that country to protect the confidentiality and privacy of its citizens. But with the social media age right now, the openness and lack of privacy some of this services are keeping the customers data, you can now even track a phone number location by using popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and even Google Hangout.

However, this highly depends on the setting of the social media users in which information that they want to be public and which is strictly on confidential and privacy basis.


How to Track a Phone

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As our phone now become more and more sophisticated, the phone manufactured nowadays are equipped with GPS technology in which allows you to track a phone in real time. In this article, we will list down on the several methods on how to track a phone.

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GPS Technology
The technology of tracking a phone revolves around the GPS chips that is embedded in your phone and also cell tower triangulation. Almost all smartphones have this GPS and therefore allows it to have some applications that helps you find your way such as Papago, Waze and etc. GPS or Global Positioning System is made up of a network of 24 satellites placed in the orbit by the U.S Department of Defense. It is a satellite-based navigation system and was originally developed for military purposes.

The GPS satellites orbits the earth twice a day and interact with the GPS receiver embedded in your smartphones. The GPS satellite will use triangulation method to calculate and measure the user’s location based on the GPS receiver in your phone.This GPS technology allows the satellite and also network tower to pinpoint your location accurately as your phone continuously sending information on its location whereabouts to the GPS satellite.

First of all, you need to know what type of phone you have. If it is smartphone, it is much easier to track as almost all smartphones has GPS chip embedded into the phone and therefore allows it to be track via satellite and also communication tower.

Tracking non smartphone
However, if it is a non-smartphone, it can still be tracked as we have mentioned in this article how to track a non-smartphone. This is because a cell phone is basically an advanced two way radio in which communication are made via cell towers. These cell towers are within a network of cell towers which its main function is send and receive the radio signals emitting from your phone.

Your cell phone is basically transmitting radio signal to the nearest cell tower. The closer your phone to a cell tower, the stronger the signal that is emitted. So, by measuring the signal strength and also through triangulation method with other cell tower; that is by measuring how strong or weak signal emitted by your phone, your phone location can be pinpointed almost accurately. However, there are some disadvantages to this technique as big buildings or trees can affect the signal and therefore effect the signal strength.

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Tracking phone with Apps
If ten years ago you lose your phone, the chance of tracking and retrieving it back is very much slim. All you can hope for is to call your phone number using a payphone and hope someone picks it up on the other side. However, if your phone was stolen, the slimmer the chance that somebody will pick it up at the other side. And ten years ago, your phone cost less than $500 and the only data that you have in the phone is your contact address, phone number and pictures.

Fast forward to the current digital age, almost all phone users are now using smartphones. This smartphones are installed with applications as well as a lot of important data are in the phone. It is almost twice expensive as it was used to be. Therefore, it is critical for any users to be able to track their phone and retrieve it back once it is lost. All you need sometimes your phone’s IMEI number. You can use IMEI to track your phone by giving the IMEI number to your network operator to scan and locate your phone.

However, as phones are getting smarter, more data and information can be stored in the phone. Apps are a must for every smartphones and this Apps can have many functions depending on the interest of the users. Apps are also been created for security of the smartphones as well as for tracking the phone if the phone got lost. There are numerous available Apps in the market such as SeekDroid, Find My Droid, Predator and many more. Each of this Apps have its own unique specifications and advantages.

iPhone even have a pre-installed app that is called Find iPhone that can instantly tracked the whereabouts of your phone. This shows that this feature of tracking your phone is getting critically important. Each Apps are designed for it to be able to transmit the location of your phone in which you can access through a computer or other phone. It uses GPS technology and therefore you can track your phone as long as it is on and connected to a network operator.

As a conclusion, smartphones has become a necessity in this modern age of web 3.0. As the device become more important to our daily lives, the ability to track it once it got lost will become more and more critical as many valuable data will be in the smartphones. The data that was lost sometimes outweigh the price of the smartphones and for that reason alone, people will try to track their phone in many means as possible.


Can We Track Cell Phones on Airplanes?

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As the search still continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane, the exact location of the plane is still shrouded in mystery. There are some family who try to contact their loved ones who boarded the plane by cellphone. Some said that they heard the phones ringing but there is no answer. However, as explained some of the experts, a ringing does not indicate that the phone necessarily can be contactable and traceable.

So, the question that we want to raise here is that can we actually track the plane by locating their phones through the GPS technology. Based on some reports, the family of the loved ones actually requested China Mobile, China biggest telecom operator to track the phones of the passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines.

However, based on official reports, they could not detect their phones. Please note that the technology often used in tracking phones are based on GPS technology. Even most of the apps in the market that can used to track phones utilized this technology. So, with this technology it brings the limitation in which it could not be detected once it is above 10,000 meter in the air or deep down in the ocean. And also, the telecom operators can only track the phones only if the phones are connected to their network.

So, usually there is no coverage above 10,000 meters in the air. But how about the Wi-Fi provided by the plane? Can it be used to track the phones if the phones are connected to the wireless internet connection? This is possible as long as the plane did not crashed or in the deep ocean. But, normally long haul flight such as MH370 does not have Wi-Fi services onboard. This is due to the reason that the Wi-Fi services onboard still depended heavily on cellular towers on the ground.

So, when the planes cross the ocean, there is no connection to the internet as there is no cell towers to be connected. However, all prayers to missing passengers of MH370 and hope they will be found safe and sound.