Location Service
This service only works for Norway.
The location service lets you determine the location of the user at any given time. The accuracy of the location may vary, generally the accuracy is better in large cities than in rural areas.
Supported networks are Telenor, NetCom and Tele2, which cover more than 90 % of the Norwegian market.
Prices
Basic version
Included for all premium and two-way customers for Norway. Price per query is NOK 1.99.
Queries only allowed for whitelisted numbers, more information below.
Advanced version
Establishment fee: NOK 10.000 (Customers with existing premium agreement for Norway: NOK 0)
Per month: NOK 3.500
Price per query: NOK 0.75
No limitations, only regulated by laws and the agreement with ViaNett.
Setting up the location service (basic version)
The location service is available for all customers with a two-way or premium agreement for Norway. The end-users need to explicitly grant permission to be located. For the basic version, a whitelist is maintained automatically by our systems, and users need to send an SMS in order to give permission.
The whitelist can be configured in a few simple steps:
- Go to Administration > Configuration > Prefix and create a new prefix on our short code. Specify the type "Location service whitelist".
- Ask the users to send an SMS with the prefix you have registered, to our short code. They will receive an SMS informing them that they are whitelisted, as well as instructions on how to remove their number from the whitelist.
- You may now run location queries on the whitelisted users. Queries to users who have are not whitelisted will be rejected.
Please contact us if you want to upgrade to the advanced version of the location services.
How it works (both versions)
To find the location of a user is as simple as sending an SMS. Send an "SMS" to the phone number of the user whose location you want to find, and specify teleop 700.
You will receive the response via the same interface as you receive incoming SMS. The prefix of the incoming message will be "LOCATION", and the response may look e.g. like this:
LOCATION LAT: 59.416111; LONG: 10.675833; COUNCIL_NO: 104; COUNCIL: Moss; AREA: Melløs; OK: True;
