Key:communication:mobile_phone
 communication:mobile_phone
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Specifies whether a feature carries antennas and equipment for mobile phone communication. 
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The key communication:mobile_phone=* is added to a feature (e.g. man_made=mast) to specify whether it is used for carrying antennas and equipment for mobile phone communication (mobile mast/tower). It is usually used as communication:mobile_phone=yes.
How to map
Since communication:mobile_phone=* is a non-physical tag, it should be combined with other top-level tags; e.g.:
Dedicated communication mast:
man_made=mast- A vertical structure built to hold, for example, antennas.tower:type=communication- Describes the type of a mast or tower as communication mast or tower.
Antennas on a supporting structure, such as a communications tower, chimney, power pylon: etc.:
man_made=communications_tower- A huge tower for transmitting radio applications (TV, radio, mobile phone, etc,)man_made=tower- A free-standing vertical structure, which is higher than it is wide.man_made=chimney- A tall distinctive vertical conduit for venting hot gases or smoke, normally found near power stations or large factories.man_made=water_tower- A structure with a water tank at an altitude to increase pressure in water networkpower=tower- A tower or pylon carrying high voltage electricity cables. Often constructed from steel latticework but tubular or solid pylons are also used.
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.)
man_made=antenna- An antenna to transmit and/or receive wireless signals. (Do not map small Wi-Fi aerials on routers.)- +
antenna:type=communication- An antenna used for communication.
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Similar tags
communication:radio=yescommunication:television=yescommunication:microwave=yescommunication:bos=yesmimics
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.
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gsm
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2G
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2g
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gsm900
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GSM in a specified frequency band in MHz | |||
gsm1800
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GPRS
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cdma
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edge
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| 3G / UMTS on Wikipedia | |||||
umts
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3G
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3g
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HSPA+
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umts900
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UMTS in a specified frequency band in MHz | |||
umts2100
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lte
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4G
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4g
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lte+
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Also known as "LTE Advanced" | |||
4g+
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4G+
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lte700
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LTE in a specified frequency band in MHz | |||
lte800
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lte900
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lte1800
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lte2100
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lte2600
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| 5G on Wikipedia | |||||
5G
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5g
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nr
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"NR" / "New Radio" is the actual standard that is commonly referred to as "5G". | |||
5g_nr
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5g700
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5G in a specified frequency band in MHz | |||
5g1800
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5g2100
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5g3500
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nr700
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5G-NR in a specified frequency band in MHz | |||
nr1800
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nr2100
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nr3500
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nr3600
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A much rarer and older scheme adds the technologies inside the main tag like communication:mobile_phone=lte, communication:mobile_phone=gsm;umts;lte.