It's the best newsfeed you'll ever find on the internet.
Although, sometimes, the Signal-to-Noise ratio is quite awful.
Many Anons are probably not aware, but:
Your cellphone provider always knows where your phone is located. This is a technical necessity, arising from how cellular phone networks are organized.
Each cell network operator has a registry that keeps track of the location of any mobile set booked into the operator's network. The granularity is always down to the cell level - cell size varies from quite small in urban areas (50m) to quite large (25km or more) in rural settings.
If required, cellular network operators can perform triangulation through multiple base stations. If the handset in question is not currently in active use (call or data), there is a function called "silent ping", which is basically a special type of short message. Any handset will reply to it, but will not show any indication that it did to the user.
LE around the world use this technique to create movement profiles of mobile handsets. Neither GPS nor any other location service needs to run on the handset for this to work.