device specific location information e g gps based location from the device or telephone 130 the location server 104 may then make this location information available to the application servers 126 alternatively the hlr 106 may take the location information from the location server 104 and send it to the application servers 126 the network 124 depicted in fig1 may be any type of known network including but not limited to a wide area network wan a local area network lan a global network e g internet a virtual private network vpn and an intranet the network 124 may be implemented using a wireless network or any kind of physical network implementation known in the art fig1 also includes a database for storing cellular phone gateway application data the storage device 128 depicted in fig1 may be implemented using a variety of devices for storing information it is understood that the storage device 128 may be implemented using memory contained in one or more of the server systems 126 or it may be a separate physical device the storage device 128 is logically addressable as a consolidated data source across a distributed environment that includes a network 124 the physical data accessed via the.