Key:communication:mobile_phone

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communication:mobile_phone
Description
Cell phones mast Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: communications
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires

man_made=mast or tower:type=communication

Useful combination
Status: de facto

The tag communication:mobile_phone=yes is added to a feature (e.g. man_made=mast) to specify that it is used for carrying antennas and equipment for mobile phone communication (mobile mast/tower).

Tagging

Dedicated communication mast:

Antennas on a supporting structure mapped as a node, such as a power pylon: add tags to that structure.

Other antennas, such as on a pole atop a roof: create a new node. (If there's a significant mast on the roof, use man_made=mast with location=roof instead.)

See also

Technologies (LTE, 5G, ...)

If the information is available, the communication technology (LTE, UMTS, ...) might be of interest.

The common scheme is to add an additional communication:<technology>=yes as shown in the table below. All these tags are "in use" but have never been formally defined. Clearly, the use of upper and lower case letters has not been fixed and several different capitalization are in use. Also, while the generation numbers like "4G" technically refer to a full family of protocols it seems evident that they are used mainly as synonyms for the technology names listed with them. For consistency it might be advisable to use lower case letters for technology names and a capital "G" for generations.

<technology> Uses Description
2G / GSM on Wikipedia
gsm
2G
2g
gsm900 GSM in a specified frequency band in MHz
gsm1800
GPRS
cdma
edge
3G / UMTS on Wikipedia
umts
3G
3g
HSPA+
umts900 UMTS in a specified frequency band in MHz
umts2100
4G / LTE on Wikipedia
lte
4G
4g
lte+ Also known as "LTE Advanced"
4g+
4G+
lte700 LTE in a specified frequency band in MHz
lte800
lte900
lte1800
lte2100
lte2600
5G on Wikipedia
5G
5g
nr "NR" / "New Radio" is the actual standard that is commonly referred to as "5G".
5g_nr
5g700 5G in a specified frequency band in MHz
5g1800
5g2100
5g3500
nr700 5G-NR in a specified frequency band in MHz
nr1800
nr2100
nr3500
nr3600

A much rarer and older scheme adds the technologies inside the main tag like communication:mobile_phone=lte, communication:mobile_phone=gsm;umts;lte.