Location Services icon comes on frequently, iOS6 / iPhone 5 ...

I see it come on often, for no apparent reason. But usually goes off again after a few seconds.
Seems to happen nearly every time I press the round hardware button to wake-up the phone.
I've disabled location services for all but a few apps that obviously need it, and none of them are running now. And I've even disabled LS for most system services.
I've restarted the phone with no apparent change. I don't recall this behavior with the 4S on iOS 5.x.
Any ideas or guesses?
Thanks in advance,
Chris

Interesting. I think I might have found the culprit. Looks like it was the iOS6 Passport app.
Looking back I updated the Starbucks app a few days ago. At the time it asked me if I wanted to sync it with Passport. I said "sure." And the LS icon has been coming on frequently ever since, even though Passport wasn't technically running.
I turned off LS for the Passport app and haven't seen the behavior since.
Lesson learned.  ;-)

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