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Cell-ID data can be used for various tasks:

• save power on your smartphone by replacing GPS with cell-id tracking
• find the best GSM network provider at the place where you are going to move to
• find a place to live with low radio emission
• track assets and friends even if GPS is not available, e.g. in buildings
• enjoy a very fast first time fix compared with GPS

Have fun with being a member of a successful community!

OpenCellID provides 100% free cell-id data (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license); the OpenCellID database is published under a Creative Commons open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data. OpenCellID is the biggest community project world wide collecting GPS positions of cell towers that can be used free of charge for commercial and private purposes: more than 10.000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID contributing several hundred thousand new measurements every single day to the OpenCellID database. Detailed statistics are available in real time. OpenCellID is a collaborative project to create a free database of Cell-IDs and their corresponding location area identity. The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for GSM localization. As of Jan 1, 2014 the database contained more than 4 million unique GSM cell-ids and 550 million measurements.

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