[Talk-GB] Mobile Phone Masts & NSI

[Gareth L]

Wasn’t there/isn’t there a WiMAX ISP in Nottingham? I don’t know if it could be that. The name of the operator is evading me right now though.

On 17 Jan 2023, at 20:09, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:


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<mailto: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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