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.