Statistics on mobile antennas in France

The mobile market has exploded in recent years mainly since the policies of non-binding offerings, initially launched by free mobile in January 2012, and the constant evolution of phones which are now real advanced portable terminals.
Subscribers now need to have access to the internet, via their phone, everywhere and with a quality speed (broadband offers for mobile are on the 4G network launched by Bouygues in the last quarter of 2013).

The published dataset represents the mapping of relay antennas in France and in the DOM TOM (UMTS/GSM/LTE).
Each of the sites (supports that can receive 1 or more antennas, from different operators) that have been the subject of an authorisation to issue **ARCEP ** is identified and categorised by department.
The limit of this antenna base is that by support, we do not know accurately the number of active antennas or not (as a rule they are, but it is not systematic).
A ** observatory ** of mobile antennas presents in textual and graphical format some indicators: active/inactive sites, number of 2G/3G/4G antennas per operator, frequencies, operators, etc...