What are your intentions for this knowledge, Moses? 

I assume what you want to find out is the BTS (signalling towers) that last received the signal of the phone/MSISDN in question. Only law enforcement agencies e.g. NSIS have direct access to lawful interception gateways (which readily have this info in real time)or at least can get the last Cell/site ID(a.k.a cellular triangulation info) of the phone/number via internal anti-fraud telco staff.

FYI, cellular triangulation info is not as primitive as you put it.
Every mobile phone sends this info on initiating a call or while performing hand-overs between BTSs. Tapping this info requires you to intercept  and reconstruct a GMSK modulated digital signal, perform some frequency hopping, decode a TDMA/CDMA architecture, A3 key decryption between SIM and Authentication centre/HLR...etc..etc...

Its an incredibly long shot my friend...Your intentions might be good but I doubt you can get this information.

./bernard


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Moses Muya <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
Skunks,

I have two 'stupid' questions.

1.0 When you want to know whether a host on network is up or down you ping it,right?Is there an equivalent on mobile phones?If I want to know whether 0725****** is an operational 
      number,is there a way of finding out without calling the number or calling Safaricom to ask them about it?

2.0 We know the location of a mobile device can be discovered using GPS or Cellular tower triangulation.If,for example,a person is using a feature phone then GPS is out of 
      question.Is there a way to tap(for lack of a better word) into the service provider's triangulation info and send the info to the mobile number or store it for other uses?Think of it as 
      a primitive navigation system.

Anyone even with remote knowledge of how these two work will be of great help to me right now!

--
Kind Regards,

Moses Muya.


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