Cell towers in Le Mans (Sarthe)

Most of the town's 114 masts are buildings (72); 2 water towers make up the rest of the mix.

Masts stand at Lande la Paillerie, Boulevard des Italiens, Place Luigi Chinetti, boulevard D'Estournelles de Constant, Stade Auguste Delaune Boulevard Paul D Estournelles and Charbonniére.

Over the past 12 months ANFR recorded 44 new systems here. ANFR has approved 7 new sites that are not live yet, plus additions on 17 existing masts. New: Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 15 Rue Montaigne, Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 48 Rue Claude Hilleret and Free Mobile (4G and 5G, including 5G at 3.5 GHz) at 38 Rue Premartine. 70 Bouygues Telecom 5G transmitters are listed as technically operational — installed, but not yet declared commercially in service.

4 masts belong to the commune itself and 14 to Totem; the rest sit mainly on private buildings.

Systems from 1994 are still on the register. Bouygues Telecom switched on the first 5G here in November 2020; Orange followed in November 2020, Free Mobile followed in December 2020. 2020 was the busiest year, with 154 new systems, most of them 5G.

Most antennas sit on rooftops (72 of 114), so heights stay modest; the tallest support is 75 m at La Forêterie.

2 masts carry all four networks.

Among the 16 Sarthe towns with at least five masts, Le Mans ranks 1st by mast count. With 114 masts for 146,249 residents, or 8 per 10,000, it has fewer masts per inhabitant than the median for those towns (13).

On 3.5 GHz, the fastest 5G band: Orange on 37 of its 44 masts, Free Mobile on 36 of its 39 masts, SFR on 36 of its 39 masts and Bouygues Telecom on 27 of its 44 masts.

Coulaines lies 2.4 km to the north and has only 5 masts.

At 53 km² with 146,249 residents, the commune is dense enough that most antennas sit on rooftops rather than pylons. It is part of the CU Le Mans Métropole intercommunal grouping.

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