Sometimes it is desirable to know cell phone tower locations in order to angle an antenna towards the cell tower to improve reception, particularly in rural installations.
Some network providers disclose the location of their cell towers publicly, and some do not.
There are many publicly available mapping tools that can locate network providers towers, however due to the fact that some network providers do not publically reveal their cell-tower locations, some locations indicated on public sites may be inaccurate.
Outpost "cell tower location" tool uses one such publicly available location tool, and therefore the location of the cell towers are not always accurate.
Some example location websites:
- NZ: http://gis.geek.nz/
infrastructure.html#cellsites_ 2degrees - Australia:
The following list is an estimate by Outpost whether a particular network provider makes their cell towers locations available publicly:
- Telstra: Not available (public map locations are likely to be estimates)
- VFAU: Under NDA only (public map locations are likely to be estimates)
- Optus: Under NDA only (public map locations are likely to be estimates)
- VFNZ: Under NDA only (public map locations are likely to be estimates)
- 2 Degrees: Publically available (public map locations are likely to be accurate)
- Spark: Under NDA only (public map locations are likely to be estimates)