The carrier can still roughly triangulate your position based on the signal strength. Not much you can do on that front but to go in airplane mode if you don’t want to be tracked through the cell towers.
There even have been instances where some chinese phone manufacturers were abusing the emergency network while your phone is off to send user data to their servers … so they could even triangulate your position while your phone is turned off.
They don’t even need to do triangulation nowadays, tower has direction and distance, because the way how 4G/5G work. 5G also has MIMO (meaning one burst of data to you carry data to other clients in same direction).
The carrier can still roughly triangulate your position based on the signal strength. Not much you can do on that front but to go in airplane mode if you don’t want to be tracked through the cell towers.
Airplane mode, always!
*Faraday often imo
There even have been instances where some chinese phone manufacturers were abusing the emergency network while your phone is off to send user data to their servers … so they could even triangulate your position while your phone is turned off.
Any source for that?
They don’t even need to do triangulation nowadays, tower has direction and distance, because the way how 4G/5G work. 5G also has MIMO (meaning one burst of data to you carry data to other clients in same direction).