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Originally Posted by kusellout69
The reason Verizon locks out the GPS for non-VZNav apps is "network stability". This is because when your cell phone makes a GPS request, it does a cell tower triangulation to determine your approximate location, then makes a network request to the VZW network to determine what GPS satellite it should try to fixate on. This generates network traffic for VZW. They claim they are testing opening up the GPS to other applications, but no date yet.
If you think about it, all the LBS services, especially those that follow you constantly, could generate additional network traffic for VZW, not only in the original call after the triangulation, but also as those LBS services constantly send out pings to the network.
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Just curious, isn't the "additional network traffic" still being generated by my using a 3rd party navigation program with a GPS puck? Constant downloading of maps is still generating "traffic". So, doesn't that defeat that part of their argument for not unlocking the internal GPS?