Cell towers in Bourg-les-Valence (Drôme)

Antennas are listed at 14 Chem St Barthelemy Allee 3, Le Colombier, Les Chirouzes Sud, Talavard, Le Valentin and Girodet.

The tallest structure is a 42 m pylon at Talavard. The median height of measured supports is 28 m.

Systems from 2000 are still on the register. Local 5G started with Free Mobile in December 2020; SFR followed in August 2021, Bouygues Telecom followed in September 2021. 2017 was the busiest year, with 27 new systems, most of them 4G.

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Bouygues Telecom on all 4 masts, SFR on all 4 masts, Orange on 3 of its 4 masts and Free Mobile on 2 of its 3 masts. 5G is on 100% of masts here, against 80% across Drôme towns with five or more masts.

Among the 21 Drôme towns with at least five masts, Bourg-les-Valence ranks 7th by mast count. With 8 masts for 19,992 residents, or 4 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (10).

8 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

Valence lies 2.7 km to the south-east and has 41 masts, more than here.

Only one mast carries all four networks.

Most declared azimuths point outward, along a corridor or valley rather than at the centre.

19,992 residents over 20 km²: supports are mostly pylons, not rooftops.

Most of the town's 8 masts are pylons (6).

Of the 119 systems declared here, 28 are installed but not yet in commercial service (ANFR, as of October 2026).