As a towerco (Tower Company), TDF owns telecoms infrastructures throughout France and the French overseas territories. TDF operates and maintains its towers, pylons, building roofs, etc., and houses its customers, notably mobile telecoms operators.
As an industrial player, the TDF Group deploys 300 new towers every year, helping to improve the digital coverage of territories.
TDF's core business in terms of sales (56% of total sales in 2021), telecommunications infrastructure is the Group's core asset.
Present throughout France, TDF supports cell phone operators, local authorities and major private and public players in the connectivity of territories and the acceleration of very high-speed 4G and 5G mobile broadband coverage.
In rural areas, TDF hosts telecom services on its own infrastructure on existing sites (towers, pylons, etc.) and on new pylons that the Group has erected at its production plant in France, near Toulouse. In urban areas, TDF operates and manages telecom equipment on building rooftops.
As a neutral operator, one of TDF's distinctive features is the ability to pool several telecoms services on a single site.
Indoor mobile coverage (inside buildings, subways, tunnels, etc.), deployment of secure networks dedicated to professionals, mobile edge computing, tower connectivity (DTTA), smart cities, etc. are all part and parcel of the services offered and developed by the Group's experts.
TDF also owns and manages four data centers in Bordeaux, Lille, Rennes and Marseille.
Present in mainland France and the French overseas territories, TDF owns 19,200 sites for all its activities, of which 7,800 are currently active.
As an infrastructure operator for mobile telephony operators, TDF manages and operates the infrastructure (towers). Operators are masters of their own networks. At the request of its operator customers, TDF is currently deploying specific equipment to accommodate 5G on its existing and new towers.
Our teams, deeply rooted in the regions, support operators at every key stage of the rollout to optimize deployment times. Find out more about the different stages in our tower hosting solution.
TDF designs and builds its towers in France, at its ITAS production plant in Beauzelle, near Toulouse (Tarn-et-Garonne).
TDF is a towerco. A towerco, for tower company, is a company that owns telecom towers and leases them to its customers (operators, partners, etc.) to enhance their telecom network. In French, we also speak of an infrastructure operator.