Technological factors

Research Questions Technological factors

What is Location Based Service?

A location-based service (or LBS) in a cellular telephone network is a service provided to the subscriber based on her current geographic location. This position can be known by user entry, or a GPS receiver that she carries with her, but most often the term implies the use of a radiolocation function built into the cell network or handset that uses triangulation between the known geographic coordinates of the base stations through which the communication takes place.
The services can be divided in four major categories:

           [1] Business Applications (Asset Tracking / Field Services / 
               Billing / Buying / Advertising)
           [2] Entertainment & Leisure (Gaming / Location-based Imaging 
               / Athletics / Travel)
           [3] Navigation / POI Look-up / Traffic
           [4] Social Networking (Peer to Peer / Find Me / Personal Security) 

What LB technology will be accepted by large amounts of potential users? And how fast can this users adapt to this technologies? 1.
2. Who are the stakeholders in this technology?
3. Who has influence over this technology?
4. What are the required infrastructure for enabling LBS?
5. What devices are currently available?
6. What future devices may be available?
7. What are the limitations of LBS?
8. What are the technical implications of LBS?
9. Are there any substitutes for this technology?

Amarantha:
1. What are the planned future developments of the infrastructure?