How to locate by phone number

Often there are situations when it is necessary to find a person whose coordinates are unknown. Not necessarily this action is connected with shadowing, perhaps a child with a cell phone in his pocket just got lost. What to do? Then locate the phone number by the telecom operator.

When to know the location of a subscriber

In life, there are different situations. Very often people want, but can not find each other. Then locate by phone number is the only possible way out. For example, they agreed to meet in an unfamiliar area or city, but it is impossible to find their bearings on the terrain. Or the child after the lessons went to a friend, forgot to call, and parents need to find out where he is. In this case, the coordinator needs help. As already mentioned above, there is an opportunity to find out the location of the cell phone number. A very common case is finding your own missing or stolen phone. It is already possible to use special preinstalled programs. There are situations when there is a search for a missing person or a search for a criminal who is hiding from justice - in this case, special services also resort to the help of cellular operators. If you locate the phone lying in your pocket, then the person can not hide anymore. It is not excluded also "espionage games" when bearing is not quite legal.

Who can request information

Information on the position of the phone can be requested by anyone. Locating by phone number is sometimes necessary for various reasons, so applicants may be different. The most important condition is that the one who made the request for the service must have the right to do so. If the search is conducted through the operator using its SMS-services, then consent and confirmation of the "lost" party is necessary. If a special program-direction finder is used, working on GPS or GLONASS technology, then the person again knows about the presence of such a beacon. Without the consent of the subscriber, it is possible to find it only with the sanction of the special services.

When it is impossible to know and why?

It is not always possible to determine where a subscriber or phone is located. How to locate a person if he, for example, disconnected his cell phone? In this case, the system does not work. You can not find out where he is in this period of time. In the case of the theft of the phone, the abductor only needs to change the SIM card, and the search will not be possible. In addition, you can not find a person if he does not confirm his consent to the transfer of data.

Which operators support the service

To date, the largest Russian operators have the ability to locate a mobile device. Such giants as MTS, for example, provide a service called "Locator". Its use boils down to simple actions: you need to send a message to the short service number 6677 containing the phone number of the lost person. Then a text message will come to him asking him to confirm his location and consent to the transfer of such information. This is the main condition. If the subscriber agrees, then his location will be reported, and if he refuses, then no one will know where he is at the moment.

The operator "Beeline" also has a similar service: the message is sent to the number 684, then the actions of the representative of the cellular company are identical with the description of the rules of the MTS.

At "Megaphone" such service is available not on all tariff plans. You need to send a USSD request: * 148 * No. of the missing person, and if the subscriber agrees, his whereabouts will become known to you.

What actions need not be done?

The Internet is full of sites that offer programs that allegedly report the location of the phone, bypassing the operator. Are they worth your attention? As practice shows, such programs turn out to be ordinary games. Or, if not at all, dangerous viruses. It is better to use the beacon programs created by trusted developers. Download them recommended from official sites. Many programmers say that with the help of their development, you can certainly locate a person by phone. But this is not always so in fact. The cellular communication system has been developed for a long time and is considered one of the most reliable in terms of secrecy, therefore, one should not surely trust such statements.

How to calculate the location

Operators use to search for the possibility of their radio towers, for beacon programs it is necessary that both cellular devices are connected to the Internet. The operator takes the mobile phone with an accuracy of 100-200 meters according to the layout of its base stations. For ordinary users, it is impossible to locate a phone number with greater accuracy. Navigation programs poison the request to the server, from there to the satellite. He searches for the phone with the specified parameters and sends the information to his subscriber. Accuracy is usually higher (plus or minus 50 meters). To use navigation systems, you need access to the network, because interactive maps are used: Yandex Locator or Google Maps.

Modern technologies

Special services or the Ministry of Internal Affairs use other technologies to search for missing people. When the phone is on, it looks for the nearest tower. So his work is arranged. Since the towers are located on the terrain more often than the base stations, and their range is about 50 m, it is possible to determine its location with high accuracy to which particular tower a particular subscriber is connected. But this is the radius in which, perhaps, there is a person, that is, the search zone in this case is 8.5 sq. Km.

If you connect special equipment and software, then tracking is from several points. In this case, it is possible to determine the exact coordinates on the terrain, and the search area is narrowed to 1 sq.m. Since the target, as a rule, is constantly moving, then the points from which the bearings are kept are also constantly changing. Therefore, it takes several seconds to update the operational data. Despite the complexity and high cost of such search operations, they are very effective and are used by "experts" to detect and eliminate dangerous criminals.

Since it is quite expensive to determine the location of a mobile phone, bearing technologies are constantly changing and improving. If earlier only special services could afford such means of tracking, for today it is accessible to a wider circle of persons. Groups of programmers with a sufficiently good training and a strong technical base are able to create a tracking system for a particular locality by simply stepping onto the frequencies of the stations and putting them into the base. They develop algorithms that make it possible to calculate the coordinates of the target with high accuracy. In addition, some mobile phone manufacturers provide them with bearing facilities, which, with a certain periodicity, send a signal independent of the sim card to the navigation satellite. So you can track the phone until it turns off.

How much does it cost

For ordinary people, the phone search service is available for a purely symbolic fee. This allows you to use this service to a wider range of people, if the search is conducted using the capabilities of the operator. Services such as "Locator" and analogues cost from 2 to 12 rubles per request. The software used as a beacon is not estimated much more expensive. Thus, legitimate search methods are completely accessible to any subscriber of the cellular network.