Saturday, 6 April 2013

The Truth Regarding The Mobile Phone Monitor

By Eppy Quinn


Nowadays, it's very difficult to live without cell phones. Such devices have become an important element of contemporary life and for that reason, they carry important information, not just about our everyday life but also our recent location.

Of course, it is not unusual that a lot of persons would want to be aware of the whereabouts of such cell phones for a variety of motives. Whether they are for parents to trace the location of their kids, for company owners of trucking services to track their delivery vehicles, or for managers to monitor the personnel in business trips, the phone tracker is increasing in popularity.

What exactly is a phone monitor and how does it work?

Phone monitoring is a technique of determining the whereabouts of a particular mobile phone with different technical means, in spite of the phone being still or mobile. A cell phone normally can be monitored by determining the distance between the power of the signal that it emits and the closest antenna with it.

You will find four common ways to trace a cell phone: network-based, handset-based, sim-based and hybrid.

For the network-based to be effective, a person must have the assistance of the service provider of the cell phone to be able to setup a program, such as cell phone identification, triangulation, as well as timing methods. Picture 2 towers communicating with one another while they determine where the signal from the mobile phone being searched for is received from. Commonly, those who get their own cell phones lost make use of this technique since a person would need to think of a valid reason for asking the aid of the service provider in finding the cell phone. Just think of the privacy disasters if everybody who wants to have a cellular phone traced were granted the ability to make use of this technique.

The handset-based solution requires the setting up of a phone tracker into the mobile phone which needs to be tracked. These types of tracking software programs are often available through the internet. This technique may be difficult for most, particularly if the user of the cell phone does not want his device to be monitored. This happens because firstly, the software needs to be set up on the cell phone. The software then provides access to a website that will reveal the present location of the cell phone, and even the incoming and outgoing calls and text messages. For parents, this may be a very useful program for determining whether their kids are safe.

The sim-based is just self-explanatory. The SIM provides facts such as cell phone ID, round trip time and signal strength to a service provider, which can then be traced. The only catch is that the SIM card must be inserted into the handset when used or else, this defeats the purpose of being traced.

Then the hybrid is often a mixture of the network-based and the handset based approaches.

The common issue which phone tracking needs to deal with is that of privacy. In a number of nations such as the United States of America, the legislations about telecommunication privacy are mostly lax. European countries are very strict. Nevertheless, China even encourages the tracing of their own citizens.




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