But if his network can go into Christmas offering the two most popular phones - the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the new iPhone - on a new fast network, that noise echoing across Britain will be the gnashing of teeth from the headquarters of Vodafone and O2.

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The goal of the then-first-place network: to make some noise.

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According to Navsys, the company that developed JLOC, it involves a network of GPS receivers capable of detecting regions of higher than normal signal levels and low signal-to-noise ratios, either of which can indicate interference.

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