Cell towers in La Souterraine (Creuse)

Place names on the register include La Carderie, Le Peux D'Atoux, Le Peu D'Atoux, 7 rue Pascal and Peuroche.

Inventory: a 39 m pylon, at La Carderie, for Free Mobile; a 52 m pylon, at Le Peux D'Atoux, for Bouygues Telecom and SFR; a 47 m pylon, at Le Peu D'Atoux, for Free Mobile; a 30 m pylon, at 7 rue Pascal, for Orange; a 36 m pylon, at Peuroche, for Orange.

The highest support stands 52 m at Le Peux D'Atoux (pylon). The median height of measured supports is 39 m.

No mast is operator-owned: Totem has 2, TDF has 2 and Hivory has 1.

2022 was the busiest year, with 10 new systems, most of them 4G. Free Mobile opened 5G here in December 2020; SFR followed in February 2022, Bouygues Telecom followed in February 2022. The oldest transmitter still listed here goes back to 1993.

By mast count, La Souterraine is 4th of the 5 Creuse towns that have five or more. With 5 masts for 4,978 residents, or 10 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (20).

3.5 GHz 5G is declared by Orange on all 2 masts, Bouygues Telecom on its only mast, Free Mobile on 1 of its 2 masts and SFR on its only mast. 100% of the town's masts carry 5G, more than across Creuse towns with five or more masts (88%).

Nearby, Couzeix (45 km to the south-west) has 8 masts, more than here.

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

Supports leave a gap of about 2 km to the north-west of the centre.

Of the 47 systems declared here, 11 are installed but not yet in commercial service (ANFR, as of October 2026).