This is excellent info Truth and I hope others are able to weigh in on it.
My prior comments have alluded to this. It's not 9-1-1 level triangulation but pings recorded at different towers gives a very rough idea of shading toward the other tower rather than miles away farther in another direction for example. But as you mentioned in range, cell phone could contact tower within that range and a closer tower. And within 30 seconds, etc. as Drew is mentioning. I just don't see why he's confused about that.
From my research, actual triangulation is done by carriers for law enforcement purposes, including locating source of a 9-1-1 call. It's a process where they know towers involved and signal strengths and measure simultaneous time received at all towers. Given that information they can pinpoint the cell phone to within several hundred yards. These are not the few pings that are recorded historically but a monitoring and analysis of signals sent and received for this purpose.
Looking at the historical data as we are is helpful to degree that it probably points away from extreme locations in other directions.
You're an ace researcher, Truth. Great work.
My prior comments have alluded to this. It's not 9-1-1 level triangulation but pings recorded at different towers gives a very rough idea of shading toward the other tower rather than miles away farther in another direction for example. But as you mentioned in range, cell phone could contact tower within that range and a closer tower. And within 30 seconds, etc. as Drew is mentioning. I just don't see why he's confused about that.
From my research, actual triangulation is done by carriers for law enforcement purposes, including locating source of a 9-1-1 call. It's a process where they know towers involved and signal strengths and measure simultaneous time received at all towers. Given that information they can pinpoint the cell phone to within several hundred yards. These are not the few pings that are recorded historically but a monitoring and analysis of signals sent and received for this purpose.
Looking at the historical data as we are is helpful to degree that it probably points away from extreme locations in other directions.
You're an ace researcher, Truth. Great work.

