Find people with Whereis® Everyone
Whereis® Everyone lets you find where your friends, colleagues and family members are and allows you to share your location with them. They just need to have a Telstra mobile phone and accept your invitation to share their location.
How can Whereis® Everyone help you?
Locate Family & Friends
With Whereis Everyone you can easily find your friends and family on a detailed Whereis® map and share your location with them. To share location you simply invite your friends or family members to join your friends list. Once accepted you will have access to each other's location.
You can change your privacy settings at any time. For example, you can set your location to be invisible to all or selected individuals. You can stop the service any time by sending an SMS.
Get Location Alerts
Get automated SMS messages ("Location Alerts") telling you where people are at a set time, assuming their phone is on and in a coverage area and their location preference is switched on.
Under the correct conditions AGPS mobile can be located to within 50m. A person without an AGPS mobile phone can still be located, but accuracy will vary from a few hundred metres in cities to a few km in rural areas outside towns. This is often sufficient to indicate if a phone is located at home, work, school, etc.
Find Your Lost Phone
We all misplace our phone once in a while. Now if you misplace your phone, Whereis® Everyone can help you find it.
Use 'locate' to see the approximate location of your mobile on a map. Of course your phone needs to be turned on and within coverage for it to work. And accuracy depends on your network area.
How does Whereis® Everyone work?
The Whereis® Everyone service uses Telstra's Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS) and network positioning to enable registered Telstra mobile users to track the locations of friends, colleagues and family whenever their phones are switched on and in a Telstra mobile coverage area. Friends, colleagues and family must be Telstra mobile users and have accepted an invite to be located.
When attempting to locate a person with an A-GPS enabled handset, the location accuracy can vary, but is typically within about 50m of the actual position. When attempting to locate a person who does not have an A-GPS enabled handset, the accuracy can be up to a few hundred metres in high-density areas, while in rural areas it can be up to several kilometres from the actual position.
The service gives all users full control of their privacy by ensuring that anyone whose location is available to a registered user has accepted an invitation to share their location with that user.
Telstra customers you can register for the service from your Telstra mobile phone (look for "Whereis Mobile" under the BigPond Mobile Home Tab). You can also access through the Whereis icon within the ‘My Place’ on your Telstra 3G or NextG™ handset.1
You can also register online.
Can I get Whereis® Everyone on my phone?
Whereis® Everyone is currently available exclusively to Telstra mobile service customers.
How much does Whereis® Everyone cost?
It is free to browse the Whereis® Everyone WAP site and register for the service from your Telstra mobile phone (look for "Whereis Mobile" under the BigPond Mobile Home Tab).
You only pay for each location look up or alert. Casual location look-ups are priced at 50¢ each or you can subscribe for $2.95 per month and receive unlimited look-ups. Location Alerts are 30¢ for each alert sent. If you are a post-paid customer, the charges for your use of Whereis® Everyone will appear on your bill. If you are a pre-paid mobile customer, Telstra will deduct the charges for your use of Whereis® Everyone from your account balance.
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