LOCATION-AWARE NETWORK SELECTION

Systems, apparatus and methods in a mobile device for saving power by powering down all transceivers not carry traffic are presented. The traffic may be voice and/or data traffic. A mobile device may select single transceiver to carry voice traffic and the same or different transceiver to carry data traffic. A mobile device first determines its position (e.g., a coarse position estimate) then consults a database or map to determine which networks are theoretically available. The mobile device executes a rule against the theoretically available networks to select the single network, then enables the transceiver for the one network to determine if the network is actually available for use. If the database inaccurately states a network is available from a current position but the transceiver shows that the network is actually not actually available, a next network from the database or map and corresponding transceiver are selected.