A news report today suggests that the Government has banned GPS on mobile phones. Unsurprisingly, the Defence Spokesperson when queried didn’t know what’s going on – but this wouldn’t be the first time the Ministry of Defense carried out an initiative without its own rank and file being informed.
So it’s ok to sell GPS / Sat Nav units for vehicles but not ok to have the feature on mobile phones.
Someone please explain this one to me.
Filed under: ICTs and other stuff , bizarre, GPS, Idiotic, Ministry of Defence, Mobiles, Sri Lanka
You just wait and see – it will be only a matter of time when Gota & Co. will ban mobile phone use by ordinary people in Sri Lanka, all in the name of national security or anti terrorism of course. Or the process of obtaining a mobile phone license will be made so difficult – gramasevaka and police clearance and annual fee, etc – that it will be as hard as, or even harder than, owning a gun.
No wonder mobile phone operators are diversifying their business. They are smart enough to read the writing on the wall…
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This just shows the way MR (Motta Raala) works. They must be thinking that Tigers use mobiles for GPS and that they import every item legally through the customs. What a joke ? GoSL can NOT ban GPS, the satellites are thousands of kilometers away in orbit and the Pentagon isn’t going to call them back per the request of a poor country that goes to disaster day by day.
[...] also wondered whether this sudden unavailability of Blackberry’s was due to recent Ministry of Defence ban on GPS enabled mobiles, which both the 8310 Curve and Pearl support (though I don’t believe maps for Sri Lanka are [...]
I want to know, Is it(GPS) ok for Car….? Not ban.?
[...] Of course, we in Sri Lanka will never get to experience this sort of technology. [...]
What is the latest NEWS on this development guys?
I’m planning to get a phone with GPS :S
[...] the Ministry of Defense ban on GPS on mobiles now lifted (it’s unclear if the ban was ever official and gazetted) we may see later this [...]
GPS is now working with the support of a-gps (assisted gps) where the network (currently Dialog supports) is used to get the positioning information through GPRS (not much data is transfered – just below 5KB). But anyway no road map is available from Nokia. But we can see our location.