Patent ID: 8412233

Claim:
A method for acquiring a cell position, comprising: a location service apparatus receiving, from a first terminal, a locating request including an identifier of the cell where the first terminal resides; the location service apparatus determining whether cell position information corresponding to the identifier of the cell is stored in a base station database of the location service apparatus and generating a result of determining; in the case where the cell position information corresponding to the identifier of the cell is not stored in the base station database of the location service apparatus, the location service apparatus sending a first locating request to the first terminal; the location service apparatus receiving first position information from the first terminal, wherein the first position information is the position information returned after the first terminal carries out a location according to the first locating request; and the location service apparatus storing the first position information as the cell position information corresponding to the identifier of the cell, so as to acquire the position information of the cell where a roaming terminal resides.