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Welllll GPS can optionally use mobile data to get a fix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
.. and there's Google's crazy wifi hotspot -> location mapping.
It will probably depend entirely on your phone - the Strava is probably just asking the phone for an accurate lat/long and it's entirely up to the handset how it provides that.