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Sprint Finally Opens Up Their LBS API (Sort Of)

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

(This is a follow on two earlier posts about lack of access by small businesses to the Sprint LBS API) Sprint finally allows access to their LBS API via a new "Professional Developer Program". The catch - a fee of $1,295 for the first two applications, and the same for every ...

No Access to Sprint LBS API for Small Companies

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network) Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...

More on GPS on SprintPCS

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Over a year after I posted an application to obtain the IP addresses of Sprint's GPS servers, I finally received that information in the form of three IP addresses. The first is an E-911 server, while the other two are regular GPS servers. Two of them came from someone who ...

Current Status of GPS Support for SprintPCS Network

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

(TO VIEW ALL RELATED POSTS, use the "sprintlbs" category below) (This is a followup to an earlier post. Please see this followup post as well). Currently according to SprintPCS documentation, two separate APIs are available for accessing GPS information on cell phones. The first API is the Qualcomm's Location API which is ...

Getting Location Information on Sprint PCS Cellphones

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

(TO VIEW ALL RELATED POSTS, use the "sprintlbs" category below) (Please see followup posts: #1 and #2) DISCLAIMER: I have not tried any of this, so don't blame me :) For quite some time commercial cell phone carriers have been building in location based services (LBS) in comply with the E911 initiative. Unfortunatly, ...