Missing hiker in Italy spotlights need for new phone geolocation tech

PARIS (Reuters) - Badly injured on a cliff side in southern Italy, a French hiker called emergency services this month, but he could not tell them exactly where he was after a fall that broke his legs.

It took rescuers nine days to locate Simon Gautier's body, but it could have been found much sooner had Italy installed a new emergency mobile phone geolocation system that is in operation in a dozen European countries, according to the European Emergency Number Association (EENA).