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Finding your location when on the move is big business and has been dominated in the past by GPS. But now there is another technology available in Australia that allows standard mobile phones to be located using a technique called GSM triangulation.
“With the Australian mobile phone market at near saturation, this is big business,” says Ray David, Sales and Marketing Manager of Sydney based wireless innovation company redcoal Pty Ltd which has just launched its own range of GSM location based services.
“Our SimPoint service gives dispatchers and managers of mobile field staff the ability to locate their people by tracking their mobile phones. A simple to use web interface also allows messaging to these mobiles. We think that a lot of small to medium size companies that do not want to invest in GPS hardware and that need to track their people outside of a vehicle will find this attractive”, says David.
“We are also the first company in Australia to provide the development tools that can be used by others to create their own customised location based services,” says David.
Overseas where this technology has been available for years, businesses offering personalised services such as friendfinders, ATM finders and other point of interest locators are garnering significant interest from venture capital organisations.
According to a US survey by In-Stat MDR, 85% of wireless subscribers were interested in accessing location based services. More than half of these were also willing to pay a premium for these features. One conclusion from the study was that location based services held much broader mass-market appeal among wireless subscribers than other wireless data services such as ring tones and mobile games.
ABI Research estimates that the global location based market will grow to $8 billion in 2010, and with 55 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers, much of this growth will be in the Asia Pacific region.
Location based services have been threatening to explode for a while and now GSM triangulation technology makes a new world of consumer and business applications possible.
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About Redcoal
A leading mobile application developer and service provider for SMS and MMS messaging. Fully Australian owned, redcoal has more than 5 years experience in providing innovative mobile messaging solutions for many large international organisations.
Contact Information:
Ben King
Redcoal Wireless Innovation Pty Ltd
Suite 319, 5 Lime Street King Street Wharf
02 8299 4300
www.redcoal.com, www.simpoint.com.au
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