Cell ID

A GSM Cell ID (CID) is a generally unique number used to identify each Base transceiver station (BTS) or sector of a BTS within a Location area code (LAC) if not within a GSM network.

In some cases the last digit of CID represents cells' Sector ID:[1]

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Public Cell ID databases

A number of public Cell ID databases are available[2], see the table.

Name Cells Countries (MCC) Operators (MNC) Measures
http://www.location-api.com/ 18 053 559 213 1170 1 183 000 000
http://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/ 3 900 000
http://opencellid.org 610 168 168 208 49 101 675
http://cellid.telin.nl 133 637 61 165 832 474
http://cellspotting.com 111 287 591
http://celldb.org 138 582 221 640 2 649 453
http://www.cellumap.com
http://openbmap.org 214 889

(702 075)

 169 579
http://www.navizon.com

See also

References

  1. ^ "Technical Questions: GSM Cell ID format". http://www.telebeans.org/telco/towers/faq/technical.html#gsm_cid_fmt. Retrieved 2010-02-17. 
  2. ^ "Stack Overflow: Public Cell ID databases". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82184/public-cell-id-databases. Retrieved 2010-03-17. 

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