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Android Stumbler for Mozilla
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Proposal for enhancement: gathering cellular frequencies (ARFCN,UARFCN,EARFCN) #1817

Open glogg2004 opened 7 years ago

glogg2004 commented 7 years ago

Hi,

with Android 7 (API level 24), access to the current cell's frequency has been added for 2G/UMTS/LTE cellular radio access technologies (e.g. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/CellIdentityLte.html#getEarfcn() ).

I think it would be useful to gather this information through Mozilla Stumbler as there may be opportunities to use this data via MLS in new applications. I could think of generating maps with frequency band usage per geographical region, optimized cellular cell selection algorithms in cellular devices, etc.

So the enhancement proposal would be to add the above mentioned frequencies to the data set which is gathered and reported by Mozilla Stumbler.

Kind Regards /g