Globe has a new service called Globe Tracker.
It is a is a location-based service that allows you to get a general description of the location of your family, friends, or establishments in the Philippines.
Globe Tracker works by lacating mobile phones using the signals received by the cell sites of Globe’s cellular network.
How to use it?
- To find a person, click Find a Person in the menu. You will see a list of contacts you can locate. Click the box beside the mobile number of the person you want to find then click Find Selected. You can find multiple persons at the same time by clicking multiple boxes then clicking Find Selected. Locating a person costs Php5.00 each.
- No charge shall be made if the system cannot determine the location of the person or establishment that you are looking for. However, if the subscriber you are looking for has turned off his mobile phone or is outside network coverage, you will still be charged P2.50.
- If your list is empty, you have to add a contact before you can find him/her. You may add as many people as you want at Php2.50/person. You can only add Globe and TM mobile numbers.
Note that this does not use Global Positioning System or GPS. And so it will not give precise, specific locations, but will describe the general geographical area of a subscriber’s location. Locations are closer in approximation in the urban areas than in rural areas.
GPS requires that both the receiver and locator has turned his gps signal on. And in mobile phones, you can only turn it on when you establish a data connection. Turning your GPS on will not only consume your load, but also you mobile phone’s battery.
More about Globe’s Tracker service on their website.
Wow this tracker is useful. But I hope the rate goes down to 1 peso. P2.50 may be a bit painful for the ordinary Pinoy.
Yeah.. quite expensive for regular pinoys..
But i think they have a different target market for this
would this also work if i wanted to track a smart sim?
Max,
only on the Globe network
There’s a bug on the website. If you forget to log off from the website (like say you suddenly had to restart your system), you won’t be able to log back in. A message would show: “You are already logged in on a different browser.” There’s no way to reset the password (there’s a way to only retrieve it).
is there a chance that we can find out the exact particular area partitions wherein the service will indicate the specific place if the person we are locating is in that particular area?
I’m not sure if globe tracker is that approximate.
pano ma log out ung tracker ko nkalimutan ko kasi i log out
What if you had an LQ with your bf/gf and days or weeks no txt or call, you want to know where she/he is the tracker is set before the argument will the globe notify her/him that she/he has been tracked by you?
I also wanna try if this is still working. How about for SMART telco?