[Talk-GB] Mobile Phone Masts & NSI

[Vaughn Meads]

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:35:41 +0000
> From: Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com>
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mobile Phone Masts & NSI
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>> 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.

This would be MBNL - Mobile Broadband Network Limited - the joint venture set up in 2007 to build, operate and maintain the shared network for EE and 3. 

> 
> 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
>>