Do you have teenaged children and want to know where they are? Are you an employer who wants to keep track of those employees to whom you have supplied a company cell phone? Are you worried about losing your mobile phone? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then a cell phone tracking service is the answer for you.

Cell phone tracking is basically very simple. Telephones operating on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) system emit a signal to cell towers. The strength and direction of that signal received at various towers can be plotted and the location of the telephone determined by multilateration. The latest mobiles, however, are equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System). Working on the same principal as the GPS that is now so common in cars as an aid to navigation, the GPS-equipped telephone receives a signal from orbiting satellites and its position on the ground is determined by trilateration. Both systems can locate the telephone quite accurately. A mobile locate system is simply that but phone trackers can do much more. They tap into this information, and everything the cell phone does, and relay it to a secure website for you to access.

Cell phone trackers, could be described as the complete mobile phone “spy” device. Good trackers will tell you what calls have been made and received, where the phone has been and the recorded contacts in the phone. They will let you know about all text messages, SMS and picture messages. And beyond these, they will give information about what websites have been visited and even what photographs and videos have been taken. Effectively, you will know everything the user of the cell phone does with it.