Cell towers in Cognac (Charente)

Most of the town's 8 masts are pylons (4); 2 water towers make up the rest of the mix.

Antennas are listed at 35 rue de l'Avenir -9 rue Saute Grenouille, La Commodité, 19 place Monnet, Rue de Melbourne, 45 boulevard Andre Malraux and 54 Rue de la Gloire.

ANFR has approved one new site that is not live yet. New: Free Mobile (4G and 5G). 4 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

2 masts belong to the commune itself and 2 to Totem; the rest sit mainly on private buildings.

Systems from 1999 are still on the register. Free Mobile switched on the first 5G here in December 2020; SFR followed in October 2021, Bouygues Telecom followed in October 2021. 2021 was the busiest year, with 16 new systems, most of them 4G.

ANFR lists a 63 m water tower at La Commodité as the tallest structure. The median height of measured supports is 31 m.

Only one mast carries all four networks; 5 supports carry only Orange.

Among the 13 Charente towns with at least five masts, Cognac ranks 2nd by mast count. With 8 masts for 18,532 residents, or 4 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (12).

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Orange on 5 of its 6 masts, Free Mobile on all 3 masts, Bouygues Telecom on all 2 masts and SFR on all 2 masts.

Chaniers lies 18 km to the west and has 7 masts declared.

18,532 residents over 15 km²: supports are mostly pylons, not rooftops.

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