Mobile Positioning System (MPS) is Ericsson's name for a location system that determines the geographical position of mobile subscribers. By combining positional mechanisms with location specific information, MPS truly offers customized personal communication services through the mobile phone or other mobile devices.

Where are you? Most people ask this question when they telephone somebody on a mobile telephone. It is most certainly an indication that we forgot something when we designed the first generations of mobile communication systems.

We had the geographical location built into wireline telephony from the beginning. You know where you are calling but not always who will be answering. Mobile phones have become a rather personal asset and have turned this upside down - you know who you are calling but not where they are located. Somewhere along the way we lost the location!

Ericsson's Mobile Positioning System will change that. There is no doubt that there is a tremendous value in knowing the geographical location of a mobile phone. Almost any service that involves information about mobile objects can benefit from knowing the location of a mobile phone. May it be a person wearing a personal mobile phone or a machine with an attached module (mobile phone without display and buttons)?

New innovative services never thought of before suddenly become possible. Since the ability to locate phones is brand new, we have not yet seen all possible killer applications.

MPS is a relatively new technology with an estimated market value of billions of dollars enabling you to develop new products and services only limited by your own imagination.

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