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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by gsich on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:04PM (#18738665)
GPS is receive only, no mobile data is used there.
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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by rzzzt on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:27AM (#18740126)
Assisted GPS might require data/mobile network connection for the brief period of time the phone figures out where it is, roughly.
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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by bayindirh on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:18AM (#18740886)
Assisted GPS talks with the towers around, pings them for distance and gets their coordinates. It's happening on the GSM layer. It's also a no-data exchange IIRC.
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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by gsich on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:46AM (#18741003)
No, I think it's only downloading almanach data for faster GPS.
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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by bayindirh on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:38AM (#18741235)
It's one of the operational modes. On the other mode it calculates the location on behalf of the user and responds back with it [0].

In both modes data connection is required, so I'm mistaken.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by giancarlostoro on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:40PM (#18741840)
Google Maps uses mobile data to render the maps though do they not?
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Re:AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones by gsich on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:39AM (#18752875)
But how is this related to GPS?
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