Tata Indicom will be amongst the first carriers to provide A-GPS services in India. A-GPS or Assisted GPS provides the approximate location of users by triangulating the locations of nearby cell sites in addition to a GPS chip that plots the location using dedicated satellites. This provides better results and works even when the device isn’t in the direct line of sight of the satellites (for instance, indoors or on a cloudy day).

The carrier will implement this feature on some upcoming handsets that will enable subscribers to engage in location based social networking and friend finder like services. For the enterprise segment, it will enable fleet and asset management services.

Tata Indicom will employ Qualcomm’s QPoint solution along with GPSone chipset to enable these location based services.