Cell towers in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées)

1 church or religious building and 9 pylons and 5 buildings carry the commune's antennas.

Antennas are listed at 8 Chem de l'Arrouza, L'Ophite, 4/6 rue de la Reine Astrid, Le Moulin Gastou, Le Replat and Saint Joseph.

Over the past 12 months ANFR recorded 16 new systems here. ANFR has approved 2 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 3 existing masts. New: Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) and Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 10 boulevard Espagne. 5 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

Systems from 1997 are still on the register. Free Mobile switched on the first 5G here in February 2022; SFR followed in July 2022, Bouygues Telecom followed in July 2022. 2022 was the busiest year, with 31 new systems, most of them 5G.

The highest support stands 61 m at L'Ophite (building). The median height of measured supports is 30 m.

Only one mast carries all four networks; 7 supports carry only Orange.

Among the 9 Hautes-Pyrénées towns with at least five masts, Lourdes ranks 2nd by mast count. With 15 masts for 13,266 residents, or 11 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (14).

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Orange on 8 of its 9 masts, Free Mobile on 4 of its 6 masts, Bouygues Telecom on 2 of its 4 masts and SFR on 2 of its 4 masts.

The widest declared gap between neighbouring supports is about 1.5 km, to the north-east of the centre.

Nearby, Ibos (16 km to the north) has only 5 masts.

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