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 54403 blue pins, each pin represent a unique base station which has been characterized 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	102	40	6	37
Aberdeenshire	91	255	44	10
Abertawe - Swansea	70	30	9	29
Angus	45	53	18	9
Antrim	13	41	0	23
Ards	9	66	0	10
Argyll and Bute	69	94	57	6
Armagh	2	52	0	4
Ballymena	14	43	0	10
Ballymoney	1	20	0	3
Banbridge	2	35	0	5
Bath and North East Somerset	68	57	6	22
Bedfordshire County	195	140	20	69
Belfast	95	92	0	78
Blackburn with Darwen	46	19	6	18
Blackpool	40	15	3	19
Blaenau Gwent - Blaenau Gwent	15	10	5	5
Bournemouth	50	39	1	28
Bracknell Forest	49	22	2	23
Bro Morgannwg - the Vale of Glamorgan	50	23	8	18
Buckinghamshire County	275	188	28	99
Caerdydd - Cardiff	150	57	5	72
Caerffili - Caerphilly	49	37	7	9
Cambridgeshire County	244	218	27	63
Carrickfergus	8	10	0	11
Casnewydd - Newport	62	37	5	20
Castell-Nedd Port Talbot - Neath Port Talbot	41	28	8	12
Castlereagh	15	21	0	16
Cheshire County	326	251	43	132
Bristol, City of	178	62	4	45
Derby, City of	86	22	2	39
Edinburgh, City of	243	130	8	105
Kingston upon Hull, City of	63	29	2	39
Leicester, City of	108	46	1	49
Nottingham, City of	119	62	4	44
Peterborough, City of	66	39	2	21
Plymouth, City of	77	35	9	42
Portsmouth, City of	64	21	3	20
Southampton, City of	83	18	3	25
Stoke-on-Trent, City of	72	29	4	54
Clackmannanshire	12	21	3	2
Coleraine	8	49	0	9
Conwy - Conwy	34	64	23	10
Cookstown	4	18	0	8
Cornwall County	166	251	71	55
Herefordshire, County of	55	71	15	16
Craigavon	20	31	0	8
Cumbria County	186	258	80	80
Darlington	42	24	1	22
Derbyshire County	222	190	40	114
Derry	22	37	0	27
Devon County	236	349	98	70
Dorset County	132	144	43	27
Down	3	58	0	6
Dumfries and Galloway	69	190	39	27
Dundee City	54	23	5	43
Dungannon	5	63	0	8
Durham County	139	143	36	70
East Ayrshire	29	73	12	20
East Dunbartonshire	53	19	3	25
East Lothian	51	43	5	13
East Renfrewshire	35	16	4	21
East Riding of Yorkshire	107	108	23	32
East Sussex County	157	171	29	75
Essex County	576	332	55	184
Falkirk	68	43	5	32
Fermanagh	4	88	0	6
Fife	120	143	20	67
Glasgow City	281	101	17	140
Gloucestershire County	209	227	32	66
Greater London Authority	3668	2002	93	1086
Greater Manchester	1020	270	49	484
Gwynedd - Gwynedd	39	94	36	8
Halton	54	17	4	20
Hampshire County	575	343	73	227
Hartlepool	31	11	3	10
Hertfordshire County	592	267	33	157
Highland	191	299	93	14
Inverclyde	25	20	3	17
Isle of Wight	33	48	16	17
Isles of Scilly	1	1	1	0
Kent County	624	492	64	294
Lancashire County	423	207	39	181
Larne	6	22	0	11
Leicestershire County	217	171	31	83
Limavady	2	40	0	2
Lincolnshire County	248	242	40	74
Lisburn	26	57	0	26
Luton	59	24	2	26
Magherafelt	0	24	0	1
Medway	87	35	4	47
Merseyside	595	116	31	180
Merthyr Tudful - Merthyr Tydfil	20	16	3	1
Middlesbrough	45	19	2	23
Midlothian	33	27	5	14
Milton Keynes	93	77	7	33
Moray	28	68	15	5
Moyle	0	33	0	2
Na H-Eileanan an Iar	16	44	21	0
Newry and Mourne	7	52	0	5
Newtownabbey	20	15	0	25
Norfolk County	260	344	58	61
North Ayrshire	39	41	14	22
North Down	24	23	0	36
North East Lincolnshire	33	18	3	26
North Lanarkshire	139	68	11	77
North Lincolnshire	48	57	7	33
North Somerset	63	43	6	37
North Yorkshire County	196	322	70	70
Northamptonshire County	298	230	44	95
Northumberland County	116	175	46	41
Nottinghamshire County	252	201	37	111
Omagh	2	30	0	5
Orkney Islands	3	21	9	1
Oxfordshire County	264	252	40	89
Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr - Bridgend	50	26	6	13
Perth and Kinross	89	169	28	12
Poole	50	15	3	30
Powys - Powys	68	126	41	3
Reading	62	27	4	40
Redcar and Cleveland	32	23	5	16
Renfrewshire	74	31	7	49
Rhondda, Cynon, Taf - Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	66	40	14	10
Rutland	16	36	8	5
Scottish Borders	70	168	38	18
Shetland Islands	4	31	12	3
Shropshire County	83	135	27	24
Sir Benfro - Pembrokeshire	38	76	15	6
Sir Ceredigion - Ceredigion	26	44	13	7
Sir Ddinbych - Denbighshire	25	42	8	5
Sir Fynwy - Monmouthshire	40	47	17	8
Sir Gaerfyrddin - Carmarthenshire	66	90	20	9
Sir y Fflint - Flintshire	38	41	9	29
Sir Ynys Mon - Isle of Anglesey	12	44	9	3
Slough	74	20	2	22
Somerset County	139	188	42	39
South Ayrshire	47	66	12	28
South Gloucestershire	136	54	7	40
South Lanarkshire	158	123	24	57
South Yorkshire	481	207	39	195
Southend-on-Sea	45	33	1	27
Staffordshire County	314	240	56	129
Stirling	37	86	17	21
Stockton-on-Tees	40	25	3	33
Strabane	4	26	0	1
Suffolk County	243	307	55	68
Surrey County	722	269	41	222
Swindon	79	36	5	22
Telford and Wrekin	72	13	8	33
The City of Brighton and Hove	111	44	5	51
Thurrock	64	20	6	14
Torbay	29	20	6	18
Tor-Faen - Torfaen	19	13	3	4
Tyne & Wear	367	126	21	196
Warrington	102	25	4	40
Warwickshire County	204	232	37	96
West Berkshire	107	72	14	37
West Dunbartonshire	34	13	6	22
West Lothian	63	58	6	42
West Midlands	937	287	71	414
West Sussex County	298	251	32	170
West Yorkshire	843	276	109	378
Wiltshire County	172	225	55	52
Windsor and Maidenhead	110	33	5	34
Wokingham	91	19	5	20
Worcestershire County	225	136	26	97
Wrecsam - Wrexham	29	33	9	14
York	63	47	3	50

This table was prepared on 3 May 2011