Cell towers in La Baule-Escoublac

1 water tower and 14 buildings, 12 pylons and 1 camouflaged "tree" pylon carry the commune's antennas.

Declared locations include 24 Avenue des Ondines, Stade Moreau Defarges, place des Salines, Av. Antoine Louis, Camping les Ajoncs D'Or and Aérodrome de la Baule.

32 systems were switched on in the past 12 months. ANFR has approved 5 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 12 existing masts. New: Bouygues Telecom (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 25 boulevard de l'Océan, Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 53-55-57 avenue Louis Lajarrige and Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at Boulevard de la Forêt. 17 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

The commune owns 4 of the 28 masts, Hivory owns 4.

2016 was the busiest year, with 50 new systems, most of them 4G. Local 5G started with Free Mobile in December 2020; Orange followed in July 2021, Bouygues Telecom followed in September 2021. The oldest transmitter still listed here goes back to 1997.

The tallest structure is a 70 m building at La Tour St-Clair. The median is 29 m, slightly below the Loire-Atlantique median of 32 m.

By mast count, La Baule-Escoublac is 4th of the 65 Loire-Atlantique towns that have five or more. With 28 masts for 16,912 residents, or 17 per 10,000, it has more masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (8).

3.5 GHz 5G is declared by Orange on 10 of its 12 masts, Bouygues Telecom on 8 of its 15 masts, SFR on 8 of its 14 masts and Free Mobile on 6 of its 9 masts.

Nearby, Pornichet (3.4 km to the south-east) has only 11 masts.

Of the 28 masts in the commune, only one mast carries all four networks, and Orange is the only carrier on 7 masts.

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