Cell towers in Douai (Nord)

Declared supports include 1 water tower and 1 church or religious building, with pylons making up most of the remainder.

Place names on the register include Faubourg Morelle, Rue Alexandre Descatoire/Delambres, 14 boulevard Jeanne D'Arc, Eglise Saint Jacques, 303 Rue de la Motte Julien and 34 Rue de Lauwin Plancque.

44 systems were switched on in the past 12 months. ANFR has approved 2 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 11 existing masts. New: SFR (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 218 Rue D'Arcy and SFR (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 299 Chemin du Halage. 28 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

ANFR lists a 98 m pylon at Rue D'Orval as the tallest structure. The median height of measured supports is 31 m.

The commune owns 2 of the 42 masts, Cellnex owns 5.

2021 was the busiest year, with 74 new systems, most of them 5G. Orange opened 5G here in November 2020; Free Mobile followed in December 2020, SFR followed in December 2020. The oldest transmitter still listed here goes back to 1994.

Of the 42 masts in the commune, 3 masts carry all four networks, and Bouygues Telecom is the only carrier on 13 masts.

3.5 GHz 5G is declared by Free Mobile on 17 of its 18 masts, Orange on 17 of its 18 masts, SFR on 11 of its 13 masts and Bouygues Telecom on 10 of its 19 masts. 98% of the town's masts carry 5G, more than across Nord towns with five or more masts (83%).

Waziers lies 3.1 km to the north-east and has only 10 masts.

By mast count, Douai is 6th of the 94 Nord towns that have five or more. With 42 masts for 40,250 residents, or 10 per 10,000, it has more masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (9).

Source: operator declarations to ANFR, as of October 2026. Projects that are only approved are left out of the totals.