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Table of base station totals

This table shows the number of base stations in each UK County or Unitary Administration.

The Sitefinder database includes base stations operated by the public cellular operators, O2, Orange, 3, Tmobile and Vodafone and also the private GSM stations operated by Network Rail and the TETRA network operated by Airwave Solutions Ltd for the Emergency Services. Sitefinder displays in total 54249 “blue triangles”, each triangle represent a unique base station which has been characterised according to 4 different station types:

A shared base station’ where there is sharing either by technology, for example 2 different technologies at the same base station, or where 2 different operators share the same base station.

A Single operator base station using the GSM technology

A Single operator base station using the TETRA technology

A Single operator base station using the UMTS technology

Every base station is counted into one and only one of these categories.

For a description of the different technologies please see the glossary.

County	Shared	Single Operator or Single Technology
County	Shared	GSM	TETRA	UMTS
Aberdeen City	69	63	6	44
Aberdeenshire	29	316	44	10
Abertawe - Swansea	42	58	9	39
Angus	15	81	18	14
Antrim	8	47	0	17
Ards	6	68	0	8
Argyll and Bute	55	117	56	10
Armagh	2	50	0	2
Ballymena	9	49	0	10
Ballymoney	0	22	0	3
Banbridge	0	39	0	4
Bath and North East Somerset	47	77	6	18
Bedfordshire County	146	192	17	65
Belfast	82	107	0	72
Blackburn with Darwen	36	25	6	23
Blackpool	34	18	3	25
Blaenau Gwent - Blaenau Gwent	7	17	5	7
Bournemouth	36	51	1	32
Bracknell Forest	45	29	2	18
Bristol , City of	142	66	4	89
Bro Morgannwg - the Vale of Glamorgan	31	40	8	25
Buckinghamshire County	222	233	27	110
Caerdydd - Cardiff	117	74	4	71
Caerffili - Caerphilly	31	53	7	11
Cambridgeshire County	138	318	28	98
Carrickfergus	4	13	0	3
Casnewydd - Newport	32	63	6	27
Castell-Nedd Port Talbot - Neath Port Talbot	20	48	8	15
Castlereagh	13	22	0	12
Cheshire County	236	342	41	133
Clackmannanshire	6	26	3	2
Coleraine	4	55	0	7
Conwy - Conwy	14	83	22	8
Cookstown	1	22	0	1
Cornwall County	80	334	70	34
Herefordshire, County of	27	102	15	18
Craigavon	11	39	0	3
Cumbria County	121	322	80	90
Darlington	37	28	1	26
Derby , City of	72	28	2	49
Derbyshire County	156	254	36	125
Derry	14	43	0	23
Devon County	126	443	99	75
Dorset County	60	213	44	25
Down	1	59	0	1
Dumfries and Galloway	45	212	38	23
Dundee City	47	26	5	36
Dungannon	1	66	0	1
Durham County	80	191	35	73
East Ayrshire	23	82	12	21
East Dunbartonshire	38	33	3	21
East Lothian	26	70	5	22
East Renfrewshire	32	18	5	15
East Riding of Yorkshire	45	169	23	41
East Sussex County	103	219	28	71
Edinburgh , City of	206	155	9	145
Essex County	440	415	54	243
Falkirk	30	78	6	27
Fermanagh	1	91	0	0
Fife	72	189	20	62
Glasgow City	214	147	16	173
Gloucestershire County	127	277	32	86
Greater London Authority	3074	2564	87	1141
Greater Manchester	840	373	45	534
Gwynedd - Gwynedd	16	114	35	12
Halton	48	22	4	24
Hampshire County	439	481	72	242
Hartlepool	19	23	3	17
Hertfordshire County	510	336	31	206
Highland	139	350	95	15
Inverclyde	23	21	2	18
Isle of Wight	17	64	16	13
Isles of Scilly	1	0	0	0
Kent County	482	596	61	318
Kingston upon Hull , City of	49	40	2	35
Lancashire County	299	305	36	189
Larne	2	26	0	5
Leicester , City of	87	64	1	41
Leicestershire County	135	250	31	81
Limavady	1	41	0	2
Lincolnshire County	93	398	40	62
Lisburn	18	61	0	22
Luton	43	37	2	31
Magherafelt	0	24	0	1
Medway	79	39	3	40
Merseyside	465	199	31	225
Merthyr Tudful - Merthyr Tydfil	12	20	3	4
Middlesbrough	35	28	2	23
Midlothian	21	37	5	14
Milton Keynes	66	100	7	41
Moray	14	78	15	7
Moyle	0	33	0	1
Na H-Eileanan an Iar	12	48	21	0
Newry and Mourne	5	55	0	4
Newtownabbey	16	18	0	20
Norfolk County	122	473	56	79
North Ayrshire	26	64	13	19
North Down	16	31	0	24
North East Lincolnshire	20	32	3	25
North Lanarkshire	95	115	11	61
North Lincolnshire	30	74	7	33
North Somerset	41	60	6	26
North Yorkshire County	102	411	70	92
Northamptonshire County	200	318	46	119
Northumberland County	59	220	46	52
Nottingham , City of	97	75	4	61
Nottinghamshire County	180	268	37	132
Omagh	0	35	0	0
Orkney Islands	3	21	2	0
Oxfordshire County	172	335	39	95
Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr - Bridgend	28	49	6	15
Perth and Kinross	45	209	28	19
Peterborough , City of	48	54	2	29
Plymouth , City of	53	44	9	38
Poole	37	23	2	25
Portsmouth , City of	54	34	3	21
Powys - Powys	21	162	40	7
Reading	57	35	4	26
Redcar and Cleveland	23	33	5	18
Renfrewshire	65	45	7	43
Rhondda , Cynon, Taf - Rhondda , Cynon, Taff	36	67	12	16
Rutland	5	47	9	6
Scottish Borders	32	208	38	11
Shetland Islands	3	32	0	0
Shropshire County	39	167	26	32
Sir Benfro - Pembrokeshire	13	98	16	3
Sir Ceredigion - Ceredigion	13	56	14	3
Sir Ddinbych - Denbighshire	16	51	8	7
Sir Fynwy - Monmouthshire	17	62	17	20
Sir Gaerfyrddin - Carmarthenshire	23	134	20	10
Sir y Fflint - Flintshire	20	59	9	17
Sir Ynys Mon - Isle of Anglesey	3	54	9	4
Slough	59	26	2	25
Somerset County	71	254	39	52
South Ayrshire	29	83	12	32
South Gloucestershire	107	66	7	53
South Lanarkshire	112	174	24	61
South Yorkshire	327	353	38	231
Southampton , City of	66	28	3	33
Southend-on-Sea	36	30	1	25
Staffordshire County	218	322	58	130
Stirling	27	101	16	14
Stockton-on-Tees	34	30	3	32
Stoke-on-Trent , City of	62	36	4	43
Strabane	0	29	0	0
Suffolk County	107	420	54	94
Surrey County	656	326	42	241
Swindon	62	49	4	37
Telford and Wrekin	58	27	8	36
The City of Brighton and Hove	97	59	5	36
Thurrock	64	19	6	22
Torbay	25	23	6	10
Tor-Faen - Torfaen	11	18	3	7
Tyne & Wear	308	162	21	205
Warrington	77	45	4	43
Warwickshire County	146	292	36	102
West Berkshire	100	100	13	49
West Dunbartonshire	21	27	6	20
West Lothian	43	77	5	31
West Midlands	792	361	69	427
West Sussex County	231	314	31	147
West Yorkshire	683	394	111	530
Wiltshire County	87	283	55	58
Windsor and Maidenhead	101	43	5	38
Wokingham	84	31	5	27
Worcestershire County	145	199	26	102
Wrecsam - Wrexham	21	38	9	14
York	57	51	3	38

This table was prepared on 11 April 2008

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