Stream 8 tablet location does not work on T-mobile broadband

On my HP Stream 8 tablet, location works fine with GPS only (GNSS on; Mobile Broadband, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth off).
However, if I turn on Mobile Broadband and connect to T-Mobile and turn off GNSS (or GNSS on inside where there is no GPS signal) and keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off, the location gives very odd results.  Last week the map showed Phoenix as my location (I am actually located in San Francisco).  This week, it gives Brentwood or Clayton, CA, both more than 30 miles away.
HP tech support said call T-Mobile.  T-Mobile said they had occasionally seen equally odd locations.
I went to a nearby T-Mobile store.  They had a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 which always gave a correct location, within 100 feet using T-Mobile alone.  Manually moving the map to a different location in an attempt to confuse it and turning it on and off, it would still find the correct location.  No surprise there, my three year old Virgin Mobile LG android cell phone does just as good a job at finding locations.
(The T-mobile store also had an iPad Mini 3 that I was able to confuse.  On T-Mobile alone and clicking on My Location in maps, it produced a grid that was blank except for a line saying that it was unable to find a location, no info or link to what to do next.  The T-Mobile store did not have a Stream 8.  The Microsoft Store has a Stream 8 but it is not connected to Mobile Broadband.)
Does anyone else have this problem?  Is my unit defective? There  are times that a GPS signal is unavailable and a T-mobile broadband signal is available, and it seems that this unit should be able to find a location at least as well as my cell phone.
Thanks.

I see the same basic results, wifi=off, bluetooth=off, gnss=off, t-mobile=on. Open win8.1 map-app shows my location in LA south of the 101/110 junction. I'm in SF Bay area near San Jose about 400 miles away. Turn on wifi and map-app shows me at my real address. With t-moile only, opened win8.1 IE, went to www.bing.com/maps location also shows LA.
My only t-mobile account is the stream8 free 200mb/month data plan, don't think they have my real address anywhere. My t-mobile "phone" number is 720 area code in the Denver area. No idea why middle of LA is the t-mobile location. Must be a "feature, not a bug".

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