Cell towers in Caen (Calvados)

Declared supports include 1 church or religious building and 1 camouflaged "tree" pylon, with buildings making up most of the remainder.

Place names on the register include rue du Clos de Venoix, La Folie Couvrechef, 25 boulevard Maréchal Juin, Chu Cote de Nacre, Boulevard du Marechal Juin - Universite-Campus 2 and 1 Place de la Liberte.

79 systems were switched on in the past 12 months. ANFR has approved 5 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 10 existing masts. New: Bouygues Telecom (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 6 rue Lieutenant Louis Renouf, Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 16 rue du Pont Créon and Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 17 avenue de la Croix Guerin. 52 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

61 of the 75 masts are rooftop-mounted. The tallest support is 55 m at 10 Rue Molière (building). The median is 25 m, slightly below the Calvados median of 31 m.

The commune owns 3 of the 75 masts, Totem owns 4.

2016 was the busiest year, with 210 new systems, most of them 4G. Bouygues Telecom opened 5G here in March 2016; Free Mobile followed in December 2020, Orange followed in May 2021. The oldest transmitter still listed here goes back to 1993.

Of the 75 masts in the commune, 3 masts carry all four networks, and Orange is the only carrier on 22 masts.

By mast count, Caen is 1st of the 20 Calvados towns that have five or more. With 75 masts for 109,400 residents, or 7 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (9).

3.5 GHz 5G is declared by Orange on 24 of its 33 masts, Free Mobile on 23 of its 26 masts, Bouygues Telecom on 21 of its 33 masts and SFR on 20 of its 32 masts.

Mondeville lies 2.9 km to the south-east and has only 8 masts.

At 26 km² with 109,400 residents, the commune is dense enough that most antennas sit on rooftops rather than pylons. It is part of the CU Caen la Mer intercommunal grouping.

Source: operator declarations to ANFR, as of October 2026. Projects that are only approved are left out of the totals.