Collected research and sources about cell phone antennas and nfrastrucutre in Germany
The Bundesnetzagentur offers a map that displays all antennas in Germany that are emmiting 10 Watt ERP or more
The map informs about the number of antennas each base stations has installed and in which directions each antenna transmits it's (main lobe)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_lobe]. It also informs about the isntallation height and safety distance of each Antenna. What it lacks however is information about who or which company operates or owns the base station. On Request the Bundesnetzagentur can send the base stations certificate as well as data sheets. The latter disclose the company operating each antenna. These requests can be made rather easily trough Frag den Staat(german). Most answered requests and their attached documents are publicly available there as well. The Bundesnetzagentur doesn't offer an public API or an Data export as stated in the answer to this offical request before. However open source Data scrapers for the EMF database can be found here:
- stefanw/bnetza-emf-scraper
- which is based on this scraper by marians
From the three major telecommunication companies themselves only o2 offers a map with the locations of the Towers operated by the company while Telekom and Vodafone only offering maps illustrating the signal strength of their services around Germany:
A notable project that makes use of the EMF database is clouds over Berlin by psolbach
The app Cellmapper takes it further by letting its users scan and measure cell phone signals wherever they go. The data crowdsourced by the users then get depicted on a map that provides many technical details as well:
The big phone companies in Germany each bing their own infrastruutre provider connected to them Deutsche Funkturm is a subcompany of Deutsche Telekom owning 30.000 telecommunication sites in germany[1]. Of which 50% are also hosting antennas of other Cell phone providers according to their own statements[2]. Deutsche Funkturm offers a map as well in which planned new towers and antenna sites are listed. The current status of each project including problems are documented
Vodafone recently found it's own branch for building and maintaining infrastructre. Vantage towers holds 68,000 towers across 9 countries including Germany, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Ireland and Italy[3]. Making them effectively one if not the biggest telecommunications twoer prover in europe
Telefonica (o2) owns trough the company Telxius which operates around 30.000 Towers in 6 different countries across the globe Germany, Spain, Chile, Peru Brazil and Argentina. Furtermore Telxius owns and operate severeal Deep sea cables connecting south american countries with each other as well as Europe and the USA [4][5][6].
- more diverse and critical sources on companies
- small cell
- images of their hiding spots. Ask BVG and BNetzA about it ?
- some nice
- [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Funkturm
- [2] https://www.telekom.com/de/blog/netz/artikel/mobilfunk-maste-unterschiede-585362
- [3] https://www.vodafone.com/news-and-media/vodafone-group-releases/news/vantage-towers
- [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telxius
- [5] https://telxius.com/en/towers/
- [6] https://telxius.com/network/interactive-map/