Police will be able to know exactly where an emergency call is coming from. But this also can be used to make your wireless service very personal. The network not only knows where you are, it also knows you. This opens enormous opportunities for content providers. The network can enable you to navigate through unfamiliar towns, automatically finding the best routes with the least traffic.
Italian restaurant is nearby and what the daily specials are.
It can remind you that your laundry is ready on the way home or there is a sale on the golf clubs you were looking for as you pass a mall. All this can be broadcast on wireless networks using the GPS that will soon be on your digital phone system. This is far more advanced than GPS devices you see being offered today by some carmakers. What I am referring to is sharing the GPS task with the cellular task on the same processor, so that the two are intimately linked. The cost is minimized and any cellular service can host the service.