Cell towers in La Rochefoucauld (Charente)

1 water tower and 4 pylons carry the commune's antennas.

Masts stand at Les Villards et Montplaisir, Le Point du Jour, Les Courres, Rochefoucauld-en Angoumois and Les Grands Champs.

The declared supports are a 30 m pylon, at Les Villards et Montplaisir, for Bouygues Telecom and SFR; a 46 m pylon, at Le Point du Jour, for Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR; a 39 m water tower, at Les Courres, for Orange; a 37 m pylon, at Rochefoucauld-en Angoumois, for Free Mobile; a 49 m pylon, at Les Grands Champs, for Free Mobile.

ANFR lists a 49 m pylon at Les Grands Champs as the tallest structure. The median is 39 m, above the Charente median of 31 m.

Systems from 1999 are still on the register. Free Mobile opened 5G here in December 2020; SFR followed in August 2021, Bouygues Telecom followed in August 2021. 2019 was the busiest year, with 9 new systems, most of them 4G.

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Orange on all 2 masts, Bouygues Telecom on 1 of its 2 masts, Free Mobile on 1 of its 2 masts and SFR on 1 of its 2 masts. 5G is on 100% of masts here, against 83% across Charente towns with five or more masts.

Among the 13 Charente towns with at least five masts, La Rochefoucauld ranks 11th by mast count.

TDF and Hivory own 2 of the 5 masts each.

3 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

The widest declared gap between neighbouring supports is about 2.5 km, to the west of the centre.

Nearby, Gond-Pontouvre (18 km to the west) has 5 masts declared.

Of the 60 systems declared here, 13 are installed but not yet in commercial service (ANFR, as of October 2026).