Cell towers in Tours (Indre-et-Loire)

Declared supports include 3 water towers and 1 church or religious building, with buildings making up most of the remainder.

Antennas are listed at 80 avenue de l'Europe, 2 Allée du Général Verneau, avenue Jean Portalis, 61 avenue de Grammont, La Chatenay and 3 rue Edouard Vaillant.

Over the past 12 months ANFR recorded 32 new systems here. ANFR has approved 10 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 24 existing masts. New: Bouygues Telecom (4G) at 81 rue du Commerce, Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G) at 69 rue de la Chambrerie and Free Mobile (4G and 5G) at Les Rochettes. 46 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

6 masts belong to the commune itself and 4 to Totem; the rest sit mainly on private buildings.

Systems from 1993 are still on the register. Local 5G started with SFR in October 2020; Bouygues Telecom followed in December 2020, Free Mobile followed in January 2021. 2013 was the busiest year, with 192 new systems, most of them 4G.

Most antennas sit on rooftops (67 of 85), so heights stay modest; the tallest support is 81 m at 4 avenue du Gl de Gaulle.

7 masts carry all four networks.

Among the 30 Indre-et-Loire towns with at least five masts, Tours ranks 1st by mast count. With 85 masts for 139,259 residents, or 6 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (11).

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: SFR on 22 of its 37 masts, Orange on 18 of its 33 masts, Free Mobile on 13 of its 23 masts and Bouygues Telecom on 11 of its 39 masts.

2.6 km to the west, neighbouring La Riche has only 9 masts.

At 33 km² with 139,259 residents, the commune is dense enough that most antennas sit on rooftops rather than pylons. It is part of the Tours Métropole Val de Loire intercommunal grouping.

Figures above cover installations declared to ANFR as in service or technically operational, as of October 2026; approved projects are not counted.