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Wondering if wifi-based location in smartphones can help in regions where GPS is being scrambled for whatever reason.
I suspect the actual GPS signal takes precedence over the wifi signal triangulation so probably no, especially since we can turn off wifi location but not GPS - at least on Android.
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