Where are you served?

I can’t believe the time and energy that went into making and maintaining antennes-gsm.be. This is a large resource of cellular base station locations for the three mobile operators in Belgium, with indication of location (shown on Google map), technology (GSM/EDGE/UMTS), frequency band, frequency channel, location area code, cell ID, antenna type and site photos. For every GSM cell, one channel is indicated (200 kHz wide), while most cells probably have a capacity of several such channels so that info is probably incomplete. In any case, it’s better than what BIPT is prepared to share with us (and which works as clunky as ever, by the way).

I have learned that I am served at home by a nearby BASE GSM cell at the Antwerpsepoort in Brussels , serving a channel in the 1800 MHz band on a Kathrein 742234 antenna (providing excellent deep-indoor coverage even inside the elevator and cellar at home). Remarkably, today the cell’s location area changed from 101 to 161. Interesting.

Now I would like to see a coverage prediction on that Google map.