LOC-AID Technologies, Inc., the largest mobile location enabler and LaaS provider in North America, announced that it has surpassed the 300 million mark for mobile device access. LOC-AID signed agreements and established network gateways with the top Tier 1 carriers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, including the three of the four largest carriers in the United States, two of the three largest carriers in Canada, and the largest carrier in Mexico.
In a press release, Rip Gerber, privacy management expert and president and CEO of LOC-AID Technologies (News - Alert), said, “We've been selected by the largest wireless carriers as their preferred gateway for location data. Now, enterprise developers can access and locate nearly any mobile device via an easy and single API -- feature phones and smart phones, no application download needed. Today, LOC-AID is officially the largest LaaS provider in the world. LOC-AID now offers mobile developers ubiquity -- the ability to reach potentially over 300 million devices, all through a privacy-protected, CTIA best practice single API. From financial institutions to mobile marketing agencies, from bedroom developers to Google (News - Alert), high accuracy and low accuracy location, any company with a privacy-approved location-based service can now locate any device across our carrier networks. Our enterprise customers want comprehensive reach -- for fraud management, authentication, mobile analytics, physical asset tracking, and proximity marketing -- and the only way to get this kind of reach is through LOC-AID's gateway.”
As of today, enterprise developers are able to locate their customers, employees and assets through the award-winning LOC-AID LXG Gateway (News - Alert) and utilize network-based location data to enhance their mobile applications, customer engagements, corporate decision making and business processes. LOC-AID is also planning to announce select customer deployments in the coming months.
LOC-AID was recently in news LOC-AID launched a carrier-class aggregation platform for location-based-services.
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