Cell towers in Chauray (Deux-Sèvres)

Antennas are listed at Chaban, La Bataille, Les Guigneraies, Rue de la Treille à Chauray, Ccal Geant Niort Chauray and 91 Rue des Guillees.

Systems from 1998 are still on the register. Free Mobile opened 5G here in June 2021; Orange followed in May 2022. 2018 was the busiest year, with 13 new systems, most of them 4G.

Over the past 12 months ANFR recorded 14 new systems here. Approved additions not yet in service are pending on 2 existing masts, for example Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 91 Rue des Guillees, Free Mobile (5G 700 MHz) at 560 Route de Paris and SFR (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 91 Rue des Guillees. 3 Free Mobile 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Orange on 3 of its 4 masts and Free Mobile on 1 of its 3 masts. 5G is on 50% of masts here, against 94% across Deux-Sèvres towns with five or more masts.

The highest support stands 38 m at Chaban (building). The median height of measured supports is 31 m.

4 masts belong to Totem and 1 to On Tower France.

6 km to the east, neighbouring La Creche has only 5 masts.

The widest declared gap between neighbouring supports is about 1.8 km, to the south-east of the centre.

7,221 residents over 15 km²: supports are mostly pylons, not rooftops.

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

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