I'm wondering if a prepaid SIM card that ran out of funds still in my iPad will continue to improve the devices location accuracy (by scanning nearby cell towers and apply triangulation)?
IPhone – Will a deactivated SIM card continue to improve location accuracy
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Best Answer
It doesn't matter because it's a moot point. The cellular location services improves the performance of your location tracking by augmenting the GPS data, but it cannot improve the accuracy.
If you were just going off of the location data provided by the carrier, it would be at best "broad stroke" in terms of accuracy. Existing GPS is already accurate down to the cm (centimeter) range; how well your phone performs depends on the GPS chip that your phone uses. Roughly speaking, it'll give you accuracy within a couple of meters.