When buying a SIM card from a particular telecom operator, we rarely think about looking at the reception card. We are accustomed to the fact that the phone picks up a signal almost everywhere. The same applies to the Beeline operator - its base stations are located everywhere. This is evidenced by the map that outlines the Beeline coverage area on the operator’s official website. Nevertheless, the connection is not everywhere and not always - we will tell you why this is so.

In almost any locality we can find places where there is no coverage area of ​​our favorite telecom operator - in our case it is Beeline. A poorly located building, poor apartment layout and rooms with thick reinforced concrete walls can cause a lack of communication. The peculiarities of the propagation of radio waves in various conditions should not be overlooked. The result of all this is areas with a lack of communication. But the Beeline coverage map is unable to tell us about this.

The operator admits that in a given area there may be areas where the signal from base stations will not be received, or will be received with difficulty.

Information about Beeline's coverage area may be required in cases where we do not know whether a signal will be received at a particular point. Situations may be as follows:

• The subscriber is going on a business trip, and in order for him to talk on his mobile phone, a Beeline signal must be picked up at a given point;
• A man is going on a hike, and he wants to know whether there will be communication far from the city;
• We are about to buy a summer house - we need to check whether there will be mobile phone reception there.

There are thousands of such situations. And on the map of the Beeline coverage area you can find settlements in which there are no base stations. This means that there will be no connection to the network here, and you won’t be able to call anywhere. Beeline's coverage area in the Moscow region is quite wide - there is no doubt that there will be communication almost everywhere. We can say that the coverage here is almost continuous.

Let's try to move deeper into the Moscow region, looking at the map - we will find areas where Beeline reception is absent. It’s one thing when there is no reception somewhere in a wooded area, and it’s a completely different matter when there is no reception in any populated area (villages, small towns, hamlets).

The most interesting thing is when you arrive at your destination and are surprised to discover that the phone is still registered on the network. This may be due to both inaccuracies on the computer map of Beeline’s coverage area and some features of radio wave propagation.

As practice shows, the network can be accessible even in places where there is no coverage area on the map - for example, in remote forest areas or in mountainous areas where a reflected signal can be caught.

By the way, sometimes this is not even enough to make a call - the reception symbols are displayed on the screen, but it is simply impossible to make a call or access the Internet.

Most often, you encounter strange coverage zones in mountainous areas - here there are areas with an unusually strong signal, populated areas with a complete lack of Beeline coverage, as well as “spots” where the network seems to be caught, but does not show a stable connection.

You can view maps of Beeline's coverage area on the operator's official website. To do this, go to the “Offices and Coverage” section, select the required technology (2G, 3G or 4G), and then wait until the areas where there is a stable connection are displayed. Please note that this map may not reflect the actual reception situation as it is computer generated and may not take into account radio wave propagation.

Internet coverage area from Beeline

This point is already more interesting, as it allows you to find out whether the Internet will work in a particular point in the Moscow region and Russia. As with voice services, The Internet, even in the already widespread 3G format, will not be available everywhere. As far as was noted, Beeline has a stable coverage area only in populated areas. As soon as you drive past a road sign with the name of a city/town/village crossed out, problems begin.

If you want to see the 3G coverage area from Beeline, go to the official website and go to the “Offices and Coverage” section. Move the slider to the 3G position and wait until the map is shaded with areas with theoretical signal reception in the specified format. You may notice that it is slightly smaller than the 2G zone - and this is quite understandable, since second-generation networks appeared before third-generation networks.

The 4G coverage map from Beeline is drawn in the same section. To do this, you need to move the slider for displaying networks of a particular generation. You may notice that Beeline 4G coverage area is significantly narrower compared to other networks. For example, in Solnechnogorsk, Dmitrov or Kolomna there is a network, but in Tver for example it is missing. But it is present in distant Rybinsk.

The reason for the selectivity of Beeline’s coverage area in the 4G standard is not entirely clear, and you won’t be able to get an answer to this question from the support service (they themselves don’t know anything).

Beeline's LTE coverage area completely matches 4G coverage(this is, in fact, the same thing, because LTE is the fourth generation 4G network) - there is not even a corresponding switch on the card. But here you can display 4G+ coverage, this is high-speed Internet with a maximum speed of up to 300 Mbit/sec. In the Moscow region, it operates only within the central part of Moscow. 4G+ does not work in small settlements.

Fixing problems with coverage area

It is unlikely that you will be able to force the operator to install new base stations in some village where several hundred people live. But if you live in a large populated area, and you notice that at some point there is no normal connection to Beeline, You can write an application to adjust the coverage area– sometimes this helps (the operator will reconfigure the antennas or take measurements with his equipment).

One of the first questions that arises when you are connecting to the mobile Internet is the question of where to locate the base station of your chosen operator so that you can point your antenna towards it. It is advisable to find out the exact coordinates of the tower and the terrain before it in order to understand whether it makes sense to use the tower to receive the signal. Services and various Android applications do not provide exact coordinates of the BS, because based on measurements and their mathematical processing. The error can reach several kilometers.

Often, tower coordinates can be determined by studying operator coverage maps, terrain, Google and Yandex maps, as well as the opportunities they provide to view photographs and panoramas of the area being studied. It must be said that the BS cannot always be found on the map. There can be many reasons for this - the maps are outdated, the BS is located on the roof of the building and is simply not visible on the map, the tower is small, etc.

BS parameters are unknown. Kostroma region

Given: coordinates 57.564243, 41.08345, Kuzminka village in the Kostroma region.
The task is to determine the exact coordinates of the BS to which you can connect to receive a 3G signal. We will consider the search for BS step by step.

Step 1. Analysis of coverage maps.

Let's use the well-known service yota-faq.ru/yota-zone-map/, which presents the coverage areas of four operators, except Beeline. I will note here that the Beeline coverage presented on their website is almost impossible to use - as a rule, it shows continuous coverage that does not take into account the terrain. The coverage areas of Megafon and MTS look the most interesting from a connection point of view. You can see this for yourself by opening the service, inserting coordinates into the search bar and switching operators.

Megafon coverage area:

MTS coverage area:

From the analysis of Megafon's coverage area, we see that 3G BS are most likely located in the directions Krasnoye, Sukhonogovo, Lapino (at this scale the Lapino map is not visible, this is the southwest, approximately where the P-600 mark is).

The MTS coverage area is more interesting. Here we also consider the direction to Sukhonogovo and Krasnoye. But Red is a more interesting option, because... there is 4G coverage there. The distance to Krasny is about 10 km, if MTS distributes 4G at a frequency of 1800 MHz, then there is every chance of establishing communication with one of the MTS BSs located in this locality.

Step 2. Study of the terrain.

The terrain up to Krasny is difficult, but quite passable. To assess the terrain, we will use the service https://airlink.ubnt.com. If this is your first time on this site, you will first need to go through a free registration procedure. Having opened the service, scroll the slider down to the end and enter the initial data in the lower right corner, as shown in the following figure.

I usually first enter the same coordinates in both windows, and then start moving the purple mark to the points of interest to me, where the BS could presumably be located. In this case, the top right corner of the screen displays the terrain, the line of sight and the approximate size of the Fresnel zone.

For our coordinates we have:

Checking the terrain in other “suspicious” directions showed that the terrain there is much worse. Thus, we decided on the direction and at the same time chose the operator - MTS.

Step 3. Clarifying our choice using the “Communication Quality” service

The service opens at the following address https://geo.minsvyaz.ru. In the search line, set the name of the village Kuzminka, switch the view from 4 windows to single-window mode, scale the map to a convenient size and get for the MTS operator:

We see that our choice is correct, because according to the measurement database of users of this service, Krasnoye actually has good 4G coverage from MTS.

Let's zoom in on this map and see that the most likely location of the tower (or towers) is Sovetskaya and Okruzhnaya streets.

Step 4. Study the area using Google and Yandex maps.

These maps have a useful tool for studying the area - panoramas and photographs of the area. Google maps have much more panoramas of various areas than Yandex, so you have to use Google more often when looking at panoramas. On the other hand, Yandex has more photos taken in different places, in addition, Yandex maps for Russia are usually more relevant. In this regard, you have to use both services. Google maps and services are used here.

So, we found out that we need to consider two streets in Krasnoye in search of BS. Launch Google maps, enter the approximate coordinates of the street. Sovetskaya (or street name) and we get:

Here the street view mode is turned on, the street we need is highlighted in blue on the map. You can get a panorama of the street by clicking the mouse anywhere on the blue line. Moving in this way along the street to the north, at the post office building we find the first BS:

And finally, not far from the intersection of Sovetskaya and Okruzhnaya streets, a third tower is discovered, the highest of those found:

We return to the map and find the shadow of this tower in the place where the photo points:

We mark this place on the map with the mouse and get the exact coordinates of the BS:

Let us summarize some of the results of our research. Using information obtained from coverage area analysis, user measurements of signal strength in the area of ​​interest, and study of the area through photographs and panoramas, we were able to find three base stations and their exact coordinates in a city we had never been to. The question of which operator owns the found BS remains open, because the answer to this requires additional research. The easiest way is to drive along the route and measure the BS parameters using some Android application that displays MNC, MCC and signal strength. Some of these applications are presented here.

The parameters of the BS are known. Suburb of Penza

As is known, a number of Android applications, as well as a HiLink modem interface and an MDMA program, can provide BS parameters, with the help of which well-known services and applications can provide approximate BS coordinates, which makes it easier to find specific BS coordinates on maps. Let's look at a specific example from the forum, the example is based on

Distance to the tower is approximately 4800 meters:

As can be seen from our research, the error in determining the BS coordinates obtained using the xinit.ru/bs service is very significant - almost 2 km. Such errors are typical for all services based on user measurement databases, but there are no other services available.

Conclusion

The presented technique, based on the use of widely available cartographic tools, does not always, but quite often allows one to find the exact coordinates of the BS. Significant assistance in determining whether a BS belongs to a particular operator is provided by services that provide information on the parameters of the BS and its approximate coordinates.

This page provides a coverage map of Russian operators. All points are located on the map, cities and distances are marked. When you click on the corresponding button, you can see the coverage of 4G, 3G, LTE and GSM areas. In the upper left corner there are buttons with which you can find a specific coverage of operators of interest, as well as a form for searching for a specific object.

Using this map, you can easily view all the towers nearby to you and determine the best signal that reaches your location not at the very edge. Presented in detail:

• MTS coverage map;
• Megafon coverage map;
• Tele2 coverage map;
• 4G, 3G, LTE, GSM coverage map;
• Internet coverage map.

Each station has its own color, and the network being distributed is identified by the same color as the station. The map is updated regularly, even the slightest changes in coverage are instantly displayed on it. Our Meldana online store provides a unique opportunity that will allow you to find out the true coverage area of ​​your operator.

• 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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Despite the fact that most operators promise stable 4G coverage, the stated speed of which corresponds to 100-300 Mbit per second, the map clearly shows that this coverage is available only in small areas, while the remaining zones remain with Internet speeds of 10-30 Mbit per second.

A large area is occupied by LTE and 3G coverage, which occupy almost all areas on the map, but upon detailed inspection you can still notice “deaf” zones. The leader among LTE and 4G coverage today is Megafon, whose operators are doing everything possible not only to maximize the area of ​​​​the distributed network, but also to support the declared speed and quality of communication.

In Yekaterinburg, Beeline has the densest and most reliable coverage; it is in first place, followed by MTS, Yota and Tele2 in descending order. Despite this assessment, the networks of these operators are quite popular and stable, with the exception of blind areas that reflect the signal or do not transmit it. For such cases, you will need an amplifier to improve the signal, which you can purchase on our website. Our experienced and professional managers will conduct a detailed consultation and help you choose the most appropriate operator in your case.

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Probably everyone knows that the operator’s base station is what a mobile phone “clings” to over the air so that its owner stays in touch. If there is an MTS base station nearby, then your smartphone has fast mobile Internet, and you can hear the other person on the phone as if he were in the same room with you. This is a generally correct idea of ​​a base station, but still too simple for a device with such versatile capabilities. See for yourself.

The Internet is our everything

For many of us, the Internet is a means to always stay in touch, an opportunity to be in the center of events. A lot of convenient services depend on it, without which we cannot imagine ourselves today - from instant messengers and social networks to taxi ordering and online stores. The fact that the Internet is everywhere in our lives is the merit of MTS base stations, which are always ready to help you stay online, instantly connect you with another area of ​​the city or a friend from distant Australia, convey good news and share photos, show movies or play music from the network.

Invisible

Let's say you are sitting at home or at work. You don't see any base station. But your phone works: calls are made, notifications from VKontakte and WhatsApp are received, funny videos from YouTube are played. This is because the MTS base station does not have to literally “see” your phone: it can connect to it using a radio signal reflected from walls and other obstacles, and many walls that are not too thick for the base station are completely translucent, that is, they do not interfere with communication .

Neighborly

Also, if the base station near your home or office suddenly goes down, your phone will most likely still remain online. This is because usually your mobile phone is “looked after” not by one base station, but by two or even three, and each of them is ready to pick up a fallen banner at any moment. Of course, occasionally it may turn out that there are no other base stations nearby, but MTS always tries to make sure that your base station always has responsive neighbors.

Pass it on to someone else

By the way, when you move, base stations skillfully pass your phone to each other, like a relay baton. You don’t need to worry about this at all: MTS base stations can negotiate among themselves about such things. There are no border quarrels over the desire to send you an SMS, and a mobile conversation started in the area of ​​one base station can continue without interruption in the area of ​​another station and end near the third or fourth.

Where are you?

When you connect to the base station, it immediately understands that you are somewhere nearby. If your phone is “seen” by three or more base stations, then together they can determine your location very accurately. Geolocation services are built on this, which, for example, help parents always find out where their children are, and transport companies - control their cars.

Above all

MTS base stations are able to set priorities. It can't be that someone next to you who needs to download a big movie from the Internet will take over all the resources of the nearest base station, and you won't even be able to send a comment on Facebook. Moreover, the base station is able to give up part of its resources allocated for the Internet for calls. This, for example, is sometimes useful at train stations, where there are a lot of people, and they constantly need to call each other to find each other, inform about their arrival, or call a taxi. If the base station sees that somewhere, on the contrary, the Internet is more needed, it will take this into account.

Where there are people, there is connection

Mobile communications are available where base stations are located. But where are they placed? It depends on people, including you. If somewhere in the city too many subscribers begin to constantly claim connection to one single base station due to the fact that a new shopping center has opened in this place, MTS will very soon launch another base station nearby - a new one. It is not people who are chasing the MTS mobile network, but it is developing based on their needs, which, as you know, are increasingly flowing into the mobile Internet. This is an almost magical vicious circle: in recent years, the development of the mobile network has allowed us to get more and more from the Internet, and our growing needs for it determine how the mobile network develops.

Get yours

You may live or work in a special place, you may have a poorly designed room - in general, where it is very difficult for the MTS base station to connect to your phone. However, if you have wired Internet in the same room, you can easily get your own MTS base station, for example, like this one. If you want, use it even alone.

It is safe

So, base stations appear where people need them, and some people can buy an MTS base station for themselves. However, some still believe that base station radiation poses a threat. Such people may anxiously point a finger at a tower that has appeared nearby and gossip with friends about sudden headaches. In fact, the “rays” from the base station are harmless, and any person receives more radiation from his own mobile phone. By the way, the farther the base station is from you, the more your smartphone “tries” to be in touch, showering its owner with radiation more and more abundantly. However, even with such diligence, you have absolutely nothing to worry about, since it is not the extremely weak radiation of a mobile phone that is dangerous, but talking on it while driving or while crossing the road.

It's fun

MTS strives to introduce new stations in the regions of the country as actively as possible - we know that literally every year high-quality communications and fast mobile Internet mean more and more to people. If an MTS base station appears somewhere near you, this is definitely a good omen!

Finding base stations is a non-trivial task. You won’t find the “correct” map of the location of cellular operator base stations on the Internet “during the day.” But with a little effort, you can independently determine their location and coordinates on the ground.

We will not mess with the Netmonitor application. We use the option that will give us the most accurate result.

Finding base stations with Google Earth Pro

We use Google’s “virtual globe” to search for base stations. Google Earth is known as "Planet Earth". Follow the link and install it on your computer - Google Earth Pro for Windows, Mac or Linux

Let's launch Planet Earth. Carefully, slowly, get acquainted with the information in the “Startup Tips” pop-up window and close it.

We admire our beautiful and vast planet for a few seconds. After that, in the upper left corner, in the search bar, enter the search query we are interested in. In my case, as an example, this is the Novosibirsk region, Moshkovsky district, Kuznetsovka village.

The program is smart, insensitive to the case of letters, so I type the text without capital letters - Kuznetsovka mosh... And “Google Planet” in the search bar gave the desired address. I select it and click on search.

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 important information for you to the “Description” tab. It will pop up on the map when you click on the icon.

Register of SES conclusions

The main search tool is the database of the register of sanitary and epidemiological reports on project documentation. Follow the link and start the search - fp.crc.ru

Open the “Help” tab, perhaps the information provided there 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.

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

Let's clarify the request. 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).

I am interested in the base stations around the village of Kuznetsovka, Moshkovsky district, Novosibirsk region. That's why I use additional search phrases. I add in the first search line “Project documentation” to the word “cellular” the name of the district - “Moshkovsky”.
I get the following result:
- 125 documents were found;
- pages (5 in total).

Narrow your search

Thanks to the received list, you can already start 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.

I erase the name of the area in the search bar. Instead, first I type the name of the settlement - Kuznetsovka. Does it have any BS in it? In my case no.

Well, well, we are looking for the nearest BS in adjacent settlements. I return to “Planet Earth” and see which settlements are closest. 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.

Analysis of the results obtained

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 that, when you click on the label, a pop-up window with information will appear.

And so by analogy. We are looking 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?

Street View tool

Let's zoom in and try out one great tool called Street View. Perhaps it is also available in the village of Raduga. 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. We hold down the left key and pull 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, operator base station is 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 software for searching coordinates

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.

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