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News Release from: Cambridge Positioning Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 September 2002
Pair to accelerate European location
services
Mobilaris has entered a co-operative marketing agreement with Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) to accelerate the rollout of high-accuracy location-based services throughout Europe.
Mobilaris has entered a co-operative marketing agreement with Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) to accelerate the rollout of high-accuracy location-based services throughout Europe "With both fixed and mobile network operators in Europe mandated to make caller location information available to emergency authorities from next year, demand for high performance emergency applications and positioning technology is expected to surge", says Mobilaris' CEO Bjorn Westerholm
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"By combining our middleware expertise with CPS' competence in positioning, we will be able to market the benefits of high precision positioning to network operators.
Together, we can show them a different breadth of mass market, feature rich location applications that can be achieved by E-OTD positioning technology".
E-OTD technology has already been accepted as the standard location solution by GSM operators in the USA, where it is pivotal in the rollout of location-enabled cellular phones to meet the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) E-911 mandate.
In Europe, operators will be legally required to make caller information available to authorities handling emergencies for all calls to the single European emergency call number 112, or E-112, with effect from mid-2003.
"As well as raising the public's awareness of the benefits of location, the new European E-112 legislation will ensure that operators have the necessary building blocks in place to deliver location enhanced services", said CPS CEO Chris Wade.
"It will also focus attention on ways in which operators can commercialise the equipment they need to install to meet the EU directive".
As part of the co-operative marketing agreement - believed to be the first of its type in Europe - Mobilaris' Pacific Ocean middleware platform will be integrated with CPS' reference network.
"This will allow us to demonstrate physically how the business case of location-based services can be improved with underlying enhancements to the positioning technology", added Chris Wade.
"Together we can make high quality location based services a reality in Europe".
CPS is a world leading supplier of E-OTD technology through its customers - global network equipment vendors including Ericsson, Nortel Networks and Siemens and handset vendors including Samsung and Quanta.
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