Cell towers in Paris (Paris)

476 supports are declared underground, in a gallery or a tunnel. For questions about exposure, see the exposure guide.

Declared supports include 476 underground or tunnel sites, 16 road gantries, 14 bridges or viaducts, 5 historic monuments, 3 churches or religious buildings and 1 street furniture, with buildings making up most of the remainder.

Masts stand at Métro Chatelet_l4, boulevard de Reims, Stade Roland Garros, boulevard Périphérique Direction Bagnolet, Métro Porte Doree L8 and Porte des Lilas - Vercors.

Over the past 12 months ANFR recorded 1,277 new systems here. ANFR has approved 115 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 577 existing masts. New: Bouygues Telecom (3G, 4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 19 rue des Halles, Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G) at 47 rue de Richelieu and Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 53 Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1,076 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

130 masts belong to the commune itself and 8 to TDF; the rest sit mainly on private buildings.

Systems from 1991 are still on the register. Bouygues Telecom opened 5G here in October 2020; SFR followed in December 2020, Orange followed in March 2021. 2013 was the busiest year, with 5077 new systems, most of them 4G.

Most antennas sit on rooftops (1,895 of 2,436), so heights stay modest; the tallest support is 114 m at 7-11 quai Andre Citroën - Adecco Tour Cristal.

65 masts carry all four networks.

Among the 21 Paris towns with at least five masts, Paris ranks 1st by mast count.

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Free Mobile on 580 of its 810 masts, Bouygues Telecom on 476 of its 913 masts, SFR on 466 of its 923 masts and Orange on 434 of its 768 masts.

Nearby, Paris 05 Pantheon (965 m to the south) has only 64 masts.

At 105 km² with 2,103,778 residents, the commune is dense enough that most antennas sit on rooftops rather than pylons. It is part of the Métropole du Grand Paris intercommunal grouping.

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