Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: CDMA lost out to GSM/LTE but one nice thing the CDMA networks did that GSM doesn't - ...

CDMA lost out to GSM/LTE but one nice thing the CDMA networks did that GSM doesn't - CDMA cell towers included their latitude/longitude coordinates in their tower info. This allowed map apps to coarsely triangulate your location without any other information.

Apps can also triangulate from GSM cell tower IDs, but only by querying a provider's database of tower ID to location info.

With CDMA you could use your maps without Google always knowing where you are...