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TruePosition(R) Unveils Breakthrough Hybrid Location Solution(TM) to Improve Accuracy and Reliability for E-911 and all Location-Based Services



    TruePosition, Inc., a leading provider of wireless location
    technologies and solutions and a subsidiary of Liberty Media
    Corporation, today announced the TruePosition(R) Hybrid Location
    Solution(TM). This mobile positioning method combines network-based
    and handset-based location technologies and leverages the benefits of
    each to gain higher accuracy and reliability than any other single
    location technology.

    By combining multiple location technologies, TruePosition offers
    significantly improved performance for all location-based services.
    The Hybrid Location Solution provides better accuracy and consistency
    for consumer services such as local search and location-based
    advertising. The solution also enhances enterprise services including
    workforce management and asset tracking. Most importantly, it offers
    the accuracy, latency, and yield required for safety and security
    services such as family monitoring, personal medical alerts, and
    emergency number services including E-911 (in the US) or E-112 (in the
    European Union).

    The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution can incorporate a
    combination of location technologies such as Cell ID (CID), Enhanced
    Cell ID (ECID), Angle of Arrival (AOA), Uplink Time Difference of
    Arrival (U-TDOA), and Assisted GPS (A-GPS) to ensure optimum accuracy,
    latency, and yield across every type of environment and
    condition--urban, suburban, rural, indoors, in-vehicle, in-motion and
    stationary.

    "TruePosition´s combination of U-TDOA and A-GPS provides the best
    performance of any individual technology or any hybrid location
    technology available today or in the foreseeable future," said Stephen
    Stuut, CEO of TruePosition. "With this solution, TruePosition can
    offer the performance and reliability that the public demands for
    location-based services, especially for emergency calls where people´s
    lives and property are often at stake."

    The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution can perform in two
    different ways:

    1. A-GPS and U-TDOA can be combined in a fallback arrangement, in
    which the location system calls on one method when the performance of
    the other has deteriorated due to environmental conditions. For
    example, U-TDOA would be the operative method in urban areas and
    indoors, where A-GPS produces lesser results or fails altogether.
    Consequently, A-GPS would be selected in extreme rural areas where it
    can produce very accurate results.

    2. TruePosition can have two location technologies such as A-GPS
    and U-TDOA operate simultaneously, and then mathematically combine the
    calculations to obtain enhanced results. The combined location
    calculations produce location estimates at substantially higher
    accuracy than A-GPS or U-TDOA alone.

    The TruePosition Hybrid Location Solution(TM) not only improves
    the performance of A-GPS equipped mobiles in areas with marginal A-GPS
    coverage, but supplies high-accuracy location in areas with no GPS
    reception and to mobile phones without GPS capabilities.

    About TruePosition

    TruePosition (www.trueposition.com) is one of the world´s leading
    providers of complete, wireless location solutions for the personal
    and public safety and government security markets. The company´s
    high-performance, turnkey and managed solutions include positioning
    technologies, applications, integration services, and technical
    support. These solutions meet demanding location requirements,
    including U.S. E911 and other emergency calling directives worldwide.
    TruePosition has two subsidiaries: Useful Networks, a location
    aggregator, and Zoombak, a consumer applications developer. Founded in
    1993 and headquartered in the Philadelphia, PA (USA) area,
    TruePosition is owned by Liberty Media Corporation.