SameCell Coverage Area

The SameCell technology offers a unique balance between location and proximity sharing that promotes personal location privacy and enables a breadth of features for both GPS based devices and devices without GPS capabilities.

While exposing exact GPS coordinates can empower an application to provide useful location services, many applications are better served by proximity. As a further complication, exact positioning raises privacy and personal security concerns for many users. SameCell's Social Networking application is an application that scans a pre-defined area looking for friends or places that are nearby. While this service provides less precision with respect to an individual's location, it actually requires more complex technology to constantly poll the relative distances between large numbers of people in motion.

SameCell's proximity matching technology uses a hybrid model of Cell-towers, GPS coordinates and geo-codable real-world locations to create a proximity-based context between all SameCell users and places. Our proximity engine uses approximately half a million known cell towers together with meta data describing the relationships between the towers to create close to 100,000,000 proximity regions. These regions define our coverage area.

In response to questions from SameCell users, we have included a sampling of our coverage maps for some of the larger metropolitan areas in North America and other fast growing regions around the globe. Since cell towers form the basis for our proximity regions, we express our coverage of an area in relation to the known cell towers. GSM cell towers are represented by RED dots and CDMA towers are represented by BLUE dots.

Sample Coverage Map: New York, NY