Location of megaphone towers. Cellular towers on the map. Cellular base stations map

Coverage maps of Moscow and the Moscow region MTS, Megafon, Yota, Tele2, Rostelecom, SkyLink LTE are needed to help choose the best mobile Internet and cellular operator at our location.

Very often, you and I have to look for a mobile Internet zone for better access from a wireless network.
For this purpose, a unique map of 4G network coverage in Russia was created. The instability of the wireless signal often leaves much to be desired, and many cellular subscribers are caused a lot of trouble by the constant loss of signal.

How to use the Moscow card MTS, Megafon, Yota, Tele2, Rostelecom, SkyLink

• Yota:
  • Signal Yota 2G
  • Signal Yota 3G
  • Signal Yota 4G
• Megaphone:
  • Signal Megafon 3G
  • Signal Megafon 4G
  • Signal Megafon 4G+
• MTS:
  • MTS 2G signal
  • MTS 3G signal
  • MTS 4G signal
• Tele 2:
  • Tele2 2G signal
  • Tele2 3G signal
  • Tele2 4G signal
• Crimea:
  • Signal Crimea 2G
  • Signal Crimea 3G
  • Signal Crimea 4G
• Rostelecom:
  • RTK 2G signal
  • RTK 3G signal
  • RTK 4G signal
• SkyLink:
  • Sky signal

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To begin with, please note that when you first visit the Internet Coverage page, the MTS mobile network zone is turned on by default and you will see the MTS Map 3G-4G Coverage of Moscow and your city, region (location) automatically determined by geolocation tools.

Buttons

At the top of the Map there are buttons for other mobile Internet operators, when clicked, a layer of the communication network location zone is loaded.

In the process of searching and determining the best coverage area, you can layer different operators on top of each other and easily determine which operator is right for you.

Color Coverage of Moscow maps MTS, Megafon, Yota, Tele2, Rostelecom, SkyLink

At the bottom of the Coverage Map there are hint pictures with the color background of each operator. When simultaneously turning on the Coverage of several layers of Communication Maps at once, be careful and by turning on and off the operator buttons, accurately determine the most convenient operator for you - MTS, Megafon, Yota, Tele2.

MTS coverage map area of ​​Moscow

MTS network coverage is updated regularly and our visitors can see the latest map of this mobile operator. The color scheme is distributed in the following order:

Red LTE, pink 3G, pale pink 2G. When viewing the map, you see a list of available coverage of mobile operators and the Internet.

On the buttons where a separate selection of 2G, 3G, LTE networks is possible, you will notice a characteristic sign next to the operator’s name. By clicking on the button, a tab with available Internet standards to choose from will open.

All available communication standards are marked in the photo. By pressing again, you can cancel the selected network, thus forcing only the one you need to load.

Accuracy of Moscow City Coverage Area MTS, Megafon, Yota, Tele2, Rostelecom, SkyLink

Tele2 network coverage accuracy has been corrected; for comparison, we recommend going to the company’s official website
P.S. — 12/21/2016 — coverage maps of Rostelecom (2G,3G,4G) and SkyLink (LTE-450 MHz. Moscow, Krasnodar and surrounding regions were added. Coverage is growing - you can always determine more precisely on our map))

In this article we will cover the topic of what Beeline coverage area is, as well as how to find out about its status in a particular region and solve connection problems.

Beeline coverage map and its features

Having studied the map of the location of the operator’s communication towers, you can see that the entire country is covered by them. But communication is not always present where there are well-equipped mobile operator stations. Why so, you ask.

Many users who do not know about the features of mobile communications attribute problems with it to the service operator. But this is far from true.

Network quality depends on many factors:

1. Insufficient signal emission power from the base tower or the direction of the antennas is incorrect.
2. Uneven distribution of base stations due to the peculiarities of the geographical location and architectural development of the settlement, resulting in incomplete coverage of the territory.
3. The quality of communication also depends on the building density of the area, the layout of the building in which the subscriber is located, or even the thickness of its walls.
4. Weather conditions play an important role– so, rain greatly affects the throughput of communication channels.

Mainly about connection quality and coverage areas the subscriber wants to know in the following cases:

• Buying real estate (most often outside the city).
• When going on a trip, picnic or vacation.
• Going on a business trip.

Below you can see the coverage map:

By the way, on the map, large cities are generally shown with the best signal, but remote settlements, so to speak, the outback, cannot boast of this.

But here a surprise may await you - although the tower may not be indicated on the map, the operator’s connection in this area can be quite tolerable.

For what reason does this happen? Most often, a reflected signal is involved in this, although small inaccuracies in drawing up the coverage map cannot be ruled out.

Where can I get 3g and 4g signals from Beeline?

Having carefully studied the Beeline coverage map, you will notice that the Internet of these categories is not available everywhere. The best signals of 3g technology can be received in the central part of the country, but in the eastern and northern regions the situation is worse.

Regarding the Internet using 4g technology, the coverage here is much more modest. Base stations with this signal are located pointwise, which means that not all operator users can receive the signal.

4g Internet can be used by residents of the Moscow and St. Petersburg megacities, as well as their regions. Residents of certain central regions of Russia also have this advantage.

In other regions of the Russian Federation, 4g signals appear only in the largest cities - administrative centers of the regions where Beeline LTE base stations are located. This service is provided in 11 regions of the country, increasing its volume to cover more and more new territories every year.

Signal reception problems and how to solve this problem

As mentioned above, the absence of a signal or its poor quality occurs everywhere. And the operator is not always the reason for this. Now we would like to tell you what you can do if you have a bad operator signal on your phone.

Of course, complaining about a small number of base stations or their insufficient power will not speed up the process of installing new ones or upgrading old ones.

But by sending a request to the operator indicating your location and the characteristics of the signal you are receiving, you can be sure that the operator will definitely consider this request and check the settings of its stations in this region, which may simply need additional correction. That is why feedback from its users is very important for Beeline.

In addition, the problem may lie in the gadget itself, which simply does not receive a signal due to the fact that it does not support this type of communication. To avoid this, when purchasing equipment, be sure to ask the seller about the functions of receiving communication signals.

To solve connection problems in remote areas of the region where the signal does not penetrate well, such as in the country, you can install special cellular amplifiers.

It is also worth paying attention to the time of registration on the network. The fact is that during peak hours, when the network experiences a large influx of users, the signal scatters and there simply may not be enough for everyone, or its quality begins to “limp”.

It will be useful to view:

Grand total

In order to be connected, users need to have an idea of ​​the quality of communication in the area where they are located. To do this, the Beeline operator has posted a very accessible map of its network coverage on its website. If the subscriber is not satisfied with the signal quality, the company is always ready to listen and help solve the problem. In addition, today the solution to many connection problems is not limited to adjusting antennas at base stations, but you can find out exactly what solutions to problems exist in this article.

Do you see the gopher?..
- No…
- And I don’t see... But he is there!
- Understood…
"DMB"

Hello dear readers. You won’t find the “correct” map of base stations of cellular operators on the Internet “during the day”. It would seem sad, but if you put in a little effort, you can independently find the location and coordinates of the BS on the ground. Let's do this together with NskTarelka.ru.

We won’t fight with “Netmonitor” and others like it (from the evil one), it’s better to use the “correct” option.

Finding cell phone base station locations with Google Earth Pro

One of the main “ingredients” that we will use to create a BS map of cellular operators is Google’s “virtual globe”. Google Earth is known as Planet Earth.

The first step on the path to success - follow the link and install it on your computer - Google Earth Pro for Windows, Mac or Linux

We admire our beautiful and vast planet for a few seconds, then, in the upper left corner, in the search bar, enter the search query that interests us. In my case, as an example, this is the Novosibirsk region, Moshkovsky district, village of Kuznetsovka. The program is smart, insensitive to the case of letters, so in order not to worry, I type the text without capital letters - blacksmith mosh... And as you can see, the program itself gave the address I was looking for in the search bar. I select it and click on search.

Using the mouse wheel, I enlarge the picture and find the object that interests me. Let it be a local store where you urgently need to install the Internet.

In the toolbar, I click on “Add a label” and give it a name. I press “Ok”.

I chose the default icon for the label, you can choose any one you like. And also add any information important to you to the “Description” tab. It will pop up on the map when you click on the icon.

Finding the location of base stations or a register of SES conclusions can help us

Our main search tool for base stations of cellular operators, their location and coordinates is a database of the register of sanitary and epidemiological conclusions on project documentation. We begin the search, open the registry database - fp.crc.ru

Before you start searching for a BS, open the “Help” tab; perhaps the information contained therein will be useful to you.

Where to start your search? Let's type the word “cellular” in the first line of “Project Documentation” and click on the “Search” checkbox.

The result obtained at the time of writing:
- 223813 documents were found;
- pages (total 8953).

Narrowing the search. In the line “Conclusion number” at the very beginning, enter the code of our region. For me (Novosibirsk region) the number is 54. We update the search information:
- 8625 documents were found;
- pages (total 345).

Since I am interested in a map of base stations of cellular operators around the village of Kuznetsovka, Moshkovsky district, Novosibirsk region, I narrow the search even more using additional search phrases. Which?
You can add the name of the area to the first search line “Project documentation” to the word “cellular”, in my case “Moshkovsky”.
We get the following result:
- 125 documents were found;
- pages (5 in total).

Thanks to the received list, you can already begin searching for the location of the BS. But, in this case, do I need the whole area? In the situation under consideration, presented as an example, no. Therefore, let's do it differently. We erase the name of the area in the search bar. And instead of it, first we’ll type the name of our locality - Are there any BS in it? In my case no.
Well, well, we are looking for the nearest BS in adjacent settlements. You can return to Planet Earth and see which settlements are closest to us. You can use Double Gis for the same purpose.

One of the nearby settlements is the village of Raduga. I type it into the first search line of the registry database.
I get the following:
- 7 documents found.

First document

I’m starting to study the first document on the list. The information that interests me is the title of the “Project Documentation”.

Great, I click on “show full text of the application.” In the document that opens, I see the geographic coordinates of the base station of the cellular operator MTS. It also happens.

I enter them into the Google Planet search bar, delete the letters, leaving only numerical values, and click on “Search”. And... magic, the first BS was found.

I put my own mark on it, sign it as “MTS BS”, and delete the mark with the coordinates set by the program.
I add the title of the project documentation to the “Description”. After this, when you click on the label, a pop-up window with information will appear.

And so, by analogy, we look for all the nearest BS that we can find. In fact, not everything is as simple as it turned out in the example described above. Geographic coordinates began to be added to reports at the end of 2017. Usually there are no coordinates in the documentation.

At the beginning of the list of documents returned by the search are the most recent conclusions. So don’t forget to look at the first line “Conclusion number and date”. It is possible that the SES conclusion is present in the database, but the work has not yet been completed.

Let’s finish with the Raduga village and consider the remaining 6 documents.

Second document

Project documentation - Project: “Expansion of the mobile radiotelephone communication network of the IMT/2000 UMTS and GSM-900/1800 standard of MegaFon OJSC in the Novosibirsk region.” Cellular communication base station No. 54.0504, Novosibirsk region, Moshkovsky district, Raduga village, AMS FSUE "RTRS".

We see that this is the base station of the cellular operator Megafon No. 54. 0504. There is no information about the location.

Third document

Project documentation - Project: “Modernization of the cellular radiotelephone communication network of OJSC VimpelCom in the Novosibirsk region. Base station of the digital cellular communication system of the Novosibirsk branch of OJSC VimpelCom No. 44478, Novosibirsk region, Moshkovsky district, Raduga village, branch "SRC" AMS FSUE "RTRS".

Base station of the mobile operator VimpelCom No. 44478 (read as Beeline). Location information is again missing.

Fourth document

Project documentation - Project: “Expansion of the mobile radiotelephone communication network of the IMT/2000 UMTS and GSM-900/1800 standard of MegaFon OJSC in the territory of NSO.” Cellular communication base station No. 54.0504, Novosibirsk region, Moshkovsky district, Raduga village, ORTPTS tower.

As you can see, we are again talking about the Megafon BS No. 54.0504 that we have already come across above

Fifth document

Conclusion about the MTS BS that has already come to our attention in the documentation above.

Sixth document

Again BS Megafon No. 54.0504

Seventh document

Again, the familiar Megafon base station is described as JSC Mobicom-Novosibirsk.

Let's summarize. In the village of Raduga there are base stations of three operators - MTS, Megafon and Beeline, and seven SES conclusions. Why 7? Look carefully in the conclusions at the line “Conclusion number and date”, and everything will become clear.

The location of the MTS base station was found specifically using the specified geographic coordinates. Where are Megafon and Beeline located? I don't know. Perhaps on the same mast, maybe on neighboring structures. Let's mark them as "BS?"

I carefully explored the entire Raduga village with the help of “Planet Earth” and found more interesting shadows on the ground in three places. But nothing is clear. What is this? Megafon or Beeline base stations? Or some kind of pipes?

Let's zoom in and try to use one wonderful tool called "Street View", perhaps it is also available in the village of Rainbow. Let's put the little man on the map and take a walk around the village of Raduga.

This is done as follows. We move the mouse cursor over the little man, hold down the left key, and drag the “scout” onto the road. If blue stripes appear on the roads on the map, the Street View tool is available in that locality. But only on roads marked with a blue stripe. You can only walk along them.

The task was completed, all three objects were investigated. Conclusions have been drawn.

The first shadow closest to the man was this pipe. I could be wrong, but as for me, it is not used by cellular operators.

One of the shadows turned out to be a water tower, the other, apparently, was an operator base station - either Megafon or Beeline.

One by one, slowly, I monitored all the nearby settlements adjacent to the village of Kuznetsovka. I found operator base stations in other localities. All actions are exactly the same as those described above. What should we do next? Analyze information, build elevation profiles. I will write about this in another article.

Additional information about useful software for searching the coordinates of base stations of cellular operators

Sometimes, the documentation (SES conclusions) contains the address where the operator’s BS is located. But when you enter these details into Google Earth Pro, sometimes the location is not displayed accurately. I recommend using Double GIS in parallel if your region is included in it.

When searching for BS on the ground using Google Earth Pro maps, sometimes you come across areas with a fuzzy image. In such cases, I use Yandex maps. Often, Yandex has much better pictures.

And at the end of the article, creative advertising for LG HD TV

There are many ways to determine location, such as satellite navigation (GPS), WiFi and cellular location.

In this post, we tried to check how well the technology for determining location using cell towers in the city of Minsk works (provided that only open databases of GSM transmitter coordinates are used).

The principle of operation is that a cell phone (or cellular communication module) knows which base station transceiver it is served by, and having a database of coordinates of base station transmitters, you can approximately determine your location.

Now a little about what a transmitter is in the understanding of OpenCellID and how the OpenCellID database is populated. This database is filled in various ways, the simplest is by installing an application on a smartphone, which records the coordinates of the phone and the serving base station, and then sends all measurements to the server. The OpenCellID server calculates the approximate location of the base station based on a large number of measurements (see figure below). Thus, the coordinates of the wireless network are calculated automatically and are very approximate.

Map Members OpenStreetMap

Now let's move on to the question of how to use this database. There are two options: use the Cell ID to coordinates translation service provided by OpenCellID.org, or perform a local search. In our case, the local method is preferable, because we're going to be driving a 13km route and the web will be slow and inefficient. Accordingly, we need to download the database to the laptop. This can be done by downloading the cell_towers.csv.gz file from downloads.opencellid.org.

The database is a table in CSV format, described below:

• - code of the country;
• - operator code;
• - area code;
• - transmitter identifier;
• - longitude of the transmitter;
• - latitude of the transmitter.

Everything is clear with the database, now you can move on to determining the Cell ID.

All cellular modules support the following commands: AT+CREG, AT+COPS (serving base station), AT+CSQ (signal level from the base station). Some modules allow you to recognize, in addition to the serving transmitter, also neighboring ones, i.e. monitor base stations using the AT^SMONC commands for Siemens and AT+CCINFO for Simcom. I had a SIMCom SIM5215E module at my disposal.

Accordingly, we used the AT+CCINFO command, its format is given below.

We are interested in the following parameters:

• - indicator of the serving transmitter;
• - indicator of a nearby transmitter;
• - code of the country;
• - operator code;
• - area code;
• - transmitter identifier;
• - received signal power in dBm.

Having connected the cellular module to the laptop, we received the following log:

Monitoring is working - you can go.

The route ran in the western part of Minsk along the street. Matusevich, Pushkin Ave., st. Ponomarenko, st. Sharangovicha, st. Maxim Goretsky, st. Lobanka, st. Kuntsevshchina, st. Matusevich.

Map Members OpenStreetMap

The log was recorded at intervals of 1 second. Converting CellID to coordinates, it turned out that 6498 calls to the OpenCellID database were successful, and 3351 calls did not find matches in the database. Those. The hit rate for Minsk is approximately 66%.

The figure below shows all the transmitters that were found in the log and were in the database.

Map Members OpenStreetMap

The picture below shows all serving transmitters that were found in the log and were in the database. Those. a similar result can be obtained on any cellular module or phone.

Map Members OpenStreetMap

As you can see, at one point we were served by a transmitter located behind the traffic intersection at the intersection of the street. Pritytsky and MKAD. Most likely, this is a suburban base station serving subscribers at a distance of several kilometers, which leads to significant errors in determining location using Cell ID.

Since our SIMCom SIM5215E at each moment of time shows not only the serving transmitter, but also neighboring ones and the signal levels from them, we will try to calculate the coordinates of the device based on all the data available at a particular moment in time.

We will calculate the subscriber coordinates as a weighted average of the transmitter coordinates:
Latitude = Sum (w[n] * Latitude[n]) / Sum(w[n])
Longitude = Sum (w[n] * Longitude[n]) / Sum(w[n])

As is known from the theory of radio wave propagation, the attenuation of a radio signal in a vacuum is proportional to the square of the distance from the transmitter to the receiver. Those. When removed by a factor of 10 (for example, from 1 km to 10 km), the signal will become 100 times weaker, i.e. will decrease by 20 dB in power. Accordingly, the weight for each term is defined as:
w[n] = 10^(RSSI_in_dBm[n] / 20)

Here we assumed that the power of all transmitters is the same; this assumption is erroneous. But due to the lack of information about the power of the base station transmitter, one has to make deliberately rough assumptions.

As a result, we get a more detailed picture of locations.

Map Members OpenStreetMap

As a result, the route turned out to be well mapped out, with the exception of the ejection towards the interchange on the Moscow Ring Road, for the previously described reason. In addition, over time, the coordinate database will be filled, which should also increase the accuracy and availability of Cell ID location technology.

Thank you for your attention. Questions and comments are welcome.

In order to choose the optimal kit for reliable Internet operation, you need to know the answers to several questions.

1. Where and at what distance is the nearest base station with Internet access?
2. Is there a direct line of sight to the base station from the location where the antenna is supposed to be installed?
3. How long is the RF reduction cable needed to connect the antenna?

There are two options to answer the first question.

First option:

The easiest way is to use coverage maps that cellular operators publish on their websites.

Below is a list of links to coverage maps of major cell phone carriers.

Let’s set ourselves the task of determining the possibility of receiving 3G Internet in the village of Nagishi, Ryazan region. Based on the coverage map of the MTS operator, we determine that the nearest base station is located in the village of Gorlovo, Ryazan region.

We find a more or less exact location of the base station. As a rule, the radiation pattern of the base station antennas is similar to a trefoil because the base uses three sector antennas with a radiation pattern of 120°, and the base will be located in the center of this figure.

Next, using the Yandex map, we find the distances between the client and the base station. This is necessary so as not to do extra work because if the distance is more than 30 km, then most likely it will not be possible to establish a 3G connection

Using the "Get Information" tool, we determine the coordinates of the 3G base station and the location of the proposed antenna installation.

We got the following coordinates:

Base 53°49′37.35″N 39°2′30.3″E

Client 53°50′20.41″N 38°55′7.82″E

The first service is very simple and straightforward, you just need to enter the coordinates of the base and the client indicate the height from the surface of the earth for the base this is usually from 50 to 120m, for the client 10-15m.

There is one limitation that this service will not be able to build a route if the coordinates of the place are more than 60° N or 60° S. That is, it will no longer be possible to calculate the route in the Arkhangelsk area.

This is what happened in our case.

According to the route graph, it is clear that nothing prevents you from obtaining reliable reception at the antenna installation site, even if the base height is less (50m), direct visibility between the antennas will still be ensured.

When entering a resource, we immediately go to the tab Tower

We delete the lists of base stations by clicking on the “cross” to the right of the table and fill in the data of our database to save, click Refresh

Go to the tab Map

We reduce the size of the map and move the “cross” to the location of the receiving antenna, guided by the names on the map and the coordinates at the bottom of the map.

Clicking on the tab Profiles You can see the route profile. As you can see in the right figure, the route is open and can provide reliable 3G reception.

Scroll down the page to the heading "System Performance"

We will proceed from the fact that in order to obtain a signal level on the receiving side of at least -85 dBm, and a gain margin “for bad weather” of at least 10 dB.

We fill in the empty fields based on the fact that the receiving antenna has a gain of 14 dB, the transmitting one is 12 dB, the power of the base transmitter is 3 W, the loss in the base reduction cable is 2 dB, in the receiving antenna reduction cable is 5 dB. Click calculate and get the result above. Based on the calculated data, it turns out that the gain margin is 24 dB, that is, it will work in any weather. The signal level on the receiving side will be about -64 dB, which will allow you to have confident, stable Internet reception at the highest possible speed.

Second option:

In order to find out the location of the base station, you need to take a phone with 3G support (nowadays this is no longer uncommon), and, guided by the signal strength indicator on the phone, move towards strengthening the signal until a structure similar to those shown below appears in your field of view:

Having marked the location of the station using maps http://maps.yandex.ru, we determine the distance to the installation site and coordinates.

The antenna should be installed in an open space, as high as possible from the ground surface and oriented towards the signal source. It is better to mount the antenna on a separate, grounded mast or wall of the house facing the base station. The antenna in the direction of the base station should not be blocked by vegetation and tall objects, even at a considerable distance and within a radius of about 8 meters from the axis of the path - this will greatly weaken the ability to receive 3G Internet. Remember that for the antenna to work, you need direct visibility to the base station! Also, you cannot install the antenna under the roof of the house, even from non-metallic parts (slate, rubber, roofing felt, etc.). Also, you should not install the antenna near the chimney; excessive uneven heating will damage the antenna.

Today, the cell phone has become an important part of our lives. With the help of it we correspond, call each other and use the mobile Internet. But even now, when cellular operators do everything to improve communication, there are failures, and sometimes the connection disappears or is completely absent. Not everyone knows how cellular communications work and what determines its quality. To cover the territory and high quality of cellular communications, operator companies are increasingly building (installing) base stations. A base station map will help you stay connected. Each operator has a wide network of 3G (third generation) and 4G LTE (fourth generation) base stations. If you have not yet decided on the choice of operator or want to switch to another, you may be interested in the map of cellular base stations of the operator you need, which will show in detail the coverage area. The range of one station depends on the location and frequency range. 3G stations in megacities reach 500m, in open areas - up to 35km. 4G LTE stations - the radius can be different, optimally it is about 5 km, but if necessary it can be up to 30 km or even 100 km (if the antenna is raised sufficiently).

Mobile operators have learned to combine low and high frequencies. For areas where a small number of subscribers live, but they occupy a large area, networks operating in low bands are ideal. And in large and densely populated cities, high-band networks are being built. Dual-band LTE networks are the future of mobile communications.

You can view a map and find out the coordinates of base stations of cellular operators, as well as understand the coverage areas of cellular operators depending on the region on various websites. Examples of such sites include the following resources:

• http://bsmaps.ru/maps.php - coverage areas of Megafon, MTS, Tele2 in the central federal district;
• http://tolyatti.beeline.ru/customers/beeline-on-map/ - Beeline coverage areas
• http://www.mts.ru/mobil_inet_and_tv/help/mts/coverage/ - MTS coverage area

The quality of cellular communications varies among operator companies. A people’s project, “Communication Quality”, has been launched on the State Services website (creating a cellular communication quality map using the “Communication Quality” mobile application). https://www.gosuslugi.ru/555666/1/

On the Angry Citizen project, you can complain about poor communication quality.

If the coverage is unsatisfactory and there are areas that are not covered ("white spots"), then the connection is unstable and may fail. Our resource was created to solve these problems.

Here you can see the layout of base stations on the interactive

Detecting communication towers is not a criminal activity, but a fairly common task in remote regions and villages where the quality of coverage leaves much to be desired. How can you understand why this post gives better results than that wicket? The following tools and websites can help you navigate.

Of the English-language services, perhaps the best is opensignal.com, where you can select the operator and the required location. The map does not show towers, but does show coverage areas. Among the Russians, I can recommend netmonitor.ru - its database contains a lot of information about operator towers.

Some Android applications are also interesting. For example, OpenSignal displays a map of cell towers and Wi-Fi points (locations with poor connections are also marked on the map), has a built-in compass and a speed checker.

Another interesting utility is Netmonitor. It can monitor GSM and CDMA networks, shows information about signal strength, contains a database of cell towers, supports devices with multiple SIM cards, and can also keep a log in CLF or KLM format.

Please note that Netmonitor has limitations when running on devices from some manufacturers. On Motorola, LG, Samsung, Acer and Huawei smartphones, the list of neighbors may be empty, and on Samsung devices, the signal strength may also not be displayed.

I also recommend the GSM Signal Monitoring application, which allows you to work with GSM, UMTS and LTE networks. It displays the change in signal level on a graph and shows neighboring cells (only in GSM networks). There is a data transfer rate monitor and the ability to track connection status, connection standard, cell and current zone identifiers (LAC/RNC/TAC) and received signal strength level (RSSI, as well as RSRP for LTE).

Knowing the data of the base station, you can access it through the website xinit.ru and obtain information about its location. In large cities, it doesn’t hurt to try to find popular maps with the location of the towers, but you should understand that the towers belong to different operators. Plus, base stations are placed not only on poles, but also on the roofs of houses.