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Default Which app do you use to scan/debug GSM/CDMA cellular tower signal strength?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:53:26 -0500, JF Mezei wrote:

While you would know the ID of the antenna/radio to which your phone
connected, and the GPS location of tower that holds that antenna, you
woudln't know the orientation of the antenna. Propagation delays might
give you estimate of how far you are from antenna. But that would
represent a circle all around antenna.


As a somewhat related aside, in one article I read about tower cell ids,
the first number tells you which sector antenna you're using.

So, you can, with a bit of effort, narrow down the tower and the sector
that you're connected to.

But it takes work.