[Talk-GB] Mobile Phone Masts & NSI

[SK53]

My local 02 masts are definitely branded "O2", e.g.,
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9126091627 and
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9386495678.

wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_infrastructure_sharing#United_Kingdom>
suggests Mobile Broadband Networks are Orange (presumably EE) and
Hutchinson (3)

Jerry

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 18:38, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Obviously some are very dated
>
> You're telling me!  There's some real blasts from the past in there.
>
> BT/EE (Orange, T-Mobile, One-to-one in list below) and Hutchison 3G (the
> official name of "Three") have been sharing infrastructure for donkey's
> years now.  Their sites near me are normally badged as both "EE" and
> "Hutchison 3G" rather than the name of the joint venture.
>
> O2 (also Cellnet and probably indirectly Airwave in the list below) is now
> part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media_O2 but I've not seen
> that name used on any masts.  What was NTL is also now part of that via
> Virgin Media.
>
> "Argiva" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arqiva of course.
>
> I'm not sure who "Mobile Broadband" were; a visit to one of the sites to
> see the posted sign would help find out who they are now.
>
> I'd suggest not adding historical operator names to the NSI as it would
> surely cause confusion...
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 17/01/2023 17:32, SK53 wrote:
>
> Looking for something else I found data on mobile phone masts in the open
> data for Non-domestic rates with names of the owners of the masts (and some
> other useful things which I need to follow-up). Some of the names have
> likely changed (e.g., Orange), but in general these look like good
> candidates for adding to the Name Suggestion Index.
>
> Names in the Nottingham Open Data, roughly in order of frequency:
>
>    - Vodafone (& Ctil Vodafone)
>    - Hutchinson 3G
>    - O2 (and Telefonica O2)
>    - Mobile Broadband
>    - Orange
>    - Cellnet
>    - T-mobile
>    - Airwave
>    - Argiva
>    - Ntl
>    - One-to-One
>
> Obviously some are very dated, with the name more-or-less corresponding to
> the start date of the account, so some replacement entries may need to be
> made too.
>
> Jerry
>
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