Location services for mobile phone users

Location services will be one of the most important new service concepts for mobile phone users. Number of mobile phone users will grow faster than Internet connections, in year 2003 over 1 billion consumers will have mobile phone. Paper will describe position technologies for mobile users and location service concepts for mass market 1. General Mobile phones will be most important devices for wireless Internet. Penetration of mobile phones is growing very fast at the moment and it will more big than penetration of Internet users in near future. Voice and data calls will be important, but users need more services. This paper will describe some key technologies for location based services. Also some location based services are included. This paper will not include legal aspects of location based services. 2. Technologies Location based services need two functionalities: location method and service platform