Specific consideration of mandated Emergency Services is outside the scope of this specification. Such requirements may be regionally or nationally specific.

Normal service operation includes invocation upon initial registration, autonomous registration, call origination, and call termination. Location-Based Charging should analyze location information to compare against service zones established for the subscriber. The service would notify the subscriber of their relative location to the established service zone, indicating either "in" or "out" of zone. As the subscriber changes location or predefined location service area they should be notified of their location-based charging service opportunity, being "in" or "out" of a subscribed zone. Except for subscriber notification, the user should experience transparency in interaction with other services (Voice, Data, SMS, etc). This service may, as an option, be activated/de-activated using special feature codes on a subscriber or business customer basis.

Fleet and Asset Management services allow the tracking of location and status of specific service group users. Examples may include a supervisor of a delivery service who needs to know the location and status of employees, parents who need to know where their children are, animal tracking, and tracking of assets. The service may be invoked by the managing entity, or the entity being managed, depending on the service being provided. Fleet Management may enable an enterprise or a public organization to track the location of vehicles (cars, trucks, etc.) and use location information to optimize services. Asset management services, for example, may range from asset visualization (general reporting of position) to stolen vehicle location and geofencing (reporting of location when an asset leaves or enters a defined zone). The range of attributes for these services is wide. For Fleet and Asset Management services, a distinction may be made between the manager of the fleet/assets in charge of tracking, and the entities being tracked (service group users, etc). The tracking service may make use of mobile station handsets with possible specialized functions (Web browsers, etc) to allow for tracking and specific methods for communicating with the managing entity. A managing entity would be able to access one or several managed entities' location and status information through a specified communication interface (Internet, Interactive Voice Response, Data service, etc). The managing entity would be able to access both real-time and recent location and status results of managed entities. The network shall provide the capability to provide the last known location and timestamp. In cases where the service group user's mobile station is not registered (i.e. Inactive, out of coverage) the last known location information and timestamp may optionally be provided. If this information is unavailable in real-time, a reason for why the information is unattainable may be provided. The managing entity may also be able to relay messages to service group users through the appropriate interface, as well as receive messages originated by the service group users. Activation of Fleet and Asset Management services could be performed via subscriber provisioning by the service provider, as well as by offering subscriber-based service activation codes to the service group user/subscriber. The managing entity could also initiate service via requests to a provisioning system through Interactive Voice Response or Internet request. A feature code may optionally also be provided to allow for specific mobile user group subscriber activation by the managing entity (*FC + Mobile ID). A specific user group mobile could also be able to self-activate through the use of a feature code.

Mobiles in automobiles on freeways anonymously sampled to determine average velocity of vehicles. Congestion detected and reported. Congestion, average flow rates, vehicle occupancy and related traffic information can be gathered from a variety of sources including roadside telematic sensors, roadside assistance organizations and ad-hoc reports from individual drivers. In addition, average link speeds can be computed through anonymous random sampling of UE locations.

The purpose of the navigation application is to guide the handset user to his/her destination. The destination can be input to the terminal, which gives guidance how to reach the destination. The guidance information can be e.g. plain text, symbols with text information (e.g. turn + distance) or symbols on the map display. If the handset's velocity is available in addition to its position, real-time, adaptable turn-by-turn directions can be provided. The instructions may also be given verbally to the users by using a voice call. This can be accomplished through carrying a mobile phone that has location technology capabilities down to a few feet. Less granularity impedes the applicability of this functionality. This service can either be menu driven from a handset using SIM Application Toolkit or a WAP based terminal with a map application running - similar to a GPS system. A central server may handle all mapping of locations, and may save specific locations (i.e., favorite fishing holes).

City Sightseeing would enable the delivery of location specific information to a sightseer. Such information might consist of combinations of the services described throughout this document to describe historical sites, providing navigation directions between sites, facilitate finding the nearest restaurant, bank, airport, bus terminal, restroom facility, etc.

The main characteristic of this service category is that the network automatically broadcasts information to terminals in a certain geographical area. The information may be broadcast to all terminals in a given area, or only to members of specific group (perhaps only to members of a specific organization). The user may disable the functionality totally from the terminal or select only the information categories that the user is interested in. An example of such a service may be localized advertising. For example, merchants could broadcast advertisements to passersby based on location / demographic / psychographic information (for example "today only, 30% off on blue jeans").

The internet has also changed how people find phone numbers. Instead of thumbing through the yellow pages or calling Directory assistance you simply go online and search the number. The need for paper copy phonebooks is gone. Wireless takes this one step further by adding the location of the subscriber to the search. Now the phone number of the nearest location can be ascertained as opposed to all locations within a 50-mile area. Mobile Yellow Pages services provide the user with the location of the nearest service point, e.g. Italian restaurant. The result of the query may be a list of service points fulfilling the criteria (e.g. Italian restaurants within three kilometers). The information can be provided to the users in text format (e.g. name of the restaurant, address and telephone number) or in graphical format (map showing the location of the user and the restaurants).

Location Sensitive Internet is for further study.

The network operator may be able to use location information to aid network planning. The operator may be able to locate calls in certain areas to estimate the distribution of calls and user mobility for network planning purposes. These applications may be used for hot spot detection and user behavior modeling

The network operator may be able to use location services to improve the Quality of Service of the network. The location system may be used to track dropped calls to identify problematic areas. The system may also be used to identify poor quality areas.

The location of the handset may be used for more intelligent handovers and more efficient channel allocation techniques.