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Originally Posted by Gothalyptic
I believe this is how the new Nextel's out are able to use GPS functions, it's not a GPS per-se as in the need of satalites, it goes off the towers. As far as I am aware and from my reading anyway.
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Gothalyptic,
That's a common misconception, and partially based on the fact that our documentation is poo.
In many cases with GPS tracking (keep in mind I'm preaching Nextel here), if the handheld goes out of direct GPS view, the handheld will revert to the closest tower. We definitely use the satellites, enhanced by a GPS location server in the network, though, so both parts are euqally true and false
