[Talk-GB] Mobile Phone Masts & NSI

[SK53]

Perhaps ineedbroadband <https://www.ineedbroadband.co.uk/>:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 20:11, Gareth L <o.i at live.co.uk> wrote:

> 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> 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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