Talk:API

LCID/CID

Warning when scanning 3G networks there's a clear distinction between CID and LCID. The LCID (long CID) is a concatenation of the RNC-ID (2 bytes, ID of the radio network controller) and CellID (4 bytes, unique ID of the Cell). CID is just the Cell ID. The concatenation of both will still be unique but can be confusing as some get the CID and not LCID. It would make sense to record them separately as the RNC ID is the same for many cells, the unique element is the CID. I noticed that opencellid database contains a mixture of LCID and CID (different contributions) and results in more cells than there are in reality for a given area. This may be sorted however by looking at the size.

If you install G-Mon app for Android for example, you will see that they provide both ID: the LCID and CID.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7240038/utran-cell-identity-returned-by-getcid

--Zorglub (talk) 17:24, 22 January 2014 (CET)

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