Cell towers in Palm Springs, California
The FCC register lists 42 antenna structures in and around Palm Springs. That is the 25th highest count of any place in California.
Overview
The FCC register lists 42 antenna structures in and around Palm Springs, CA. That is the 25th highest count of any place in California.
That works out to 92.7 structures per 100,000 residents, against a population of 45,315.
Heights are uneven: the median is 18 m (60 ft) but the tallest is 83 m (273 ft), roughly 4.5 times that — usually the signature of a broadcast mast among shorter mobile sites.
The largest registered owner here is Desert Broadcasters LLC, which holds 4 of them — 9.5% of the local total. Owner is not the same as carrier: tower companies lease space on their structures to several networks at once.
Registrations here span 1965 to 2025.
Structure types
| Pole | 13 | 31% |
| Monopole | 12 | 29% |
| Tower | 7 | 17% |
| Tower array | 4 | 10% |
| Utility pole | 1 | 2% |
| Tree | 1 | 2% |
| Mast | 1 | 2% |
| Building with tower | 1 | 2% |
| Building with antenna | 1 | 2% |
| Building | 1 | 2% |
Largest registered owners
owner is not the same as carrier| Desert Broadcasters LLC Other | 4 | 10% |
| Los Angeles Smsa Limited Partnership Carrier | 4 | 10% |
| Union Pacific Railroad Company Railroad | 3 | 7% |
| T-mobile West LLC Carrier | 3 | 7% |
| At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC Carrier | 3 | 7% |
Tallest registered structures
top 25 of 42| Height | Type | Built | Owner | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 m (273 ft) | Tower array | 1965 | Desert Broadcasters LLC | 604659 |
| 83 m (273 ft) | Tower array | 1965 | Desert Broadcasters LLC | 604660 |
| 83 m (273 ft) | Tower array | 1965 | Desert Broadcasters LLC | 604661 |
| 83 m (273 ft) | Tower array | 1965 | Desert Broadcasters LLC | 604662 |
| 34 m (110 ft) | Pole | 1999 | Stc One LLC | 2604206 |
| 32 m (106 ft) | Mast | 2004 | Los Angeles Smsa Limited Partnership | 2644968 |
| 31 m (100 ft) | Tower | 1973 | City of Palm Springs | 2615465 |
| 28 m (93 ft) | Pole | 1997 | Ccatt LLC | 117817 |
| 28 m (92 ft) | Utility pole | 2007 | T-mobile West Tower LLC | 2657208 |
| 27 m (89 ft) | Building with antenna | 2023 | T-mobile West LLC | 2721227 |
| 27 m (89 ft) | Tower | 1968 | Gulf-california Broadcast Company | 2618178 |
| 23 m (76 ft) | Monopole | 2016 | Palm Springs Unified School District | 2700328 |
| 23 m (75 ft) | Monopole | 2011 | Vertical Bridge Ntcf, LLC | 2689017 |
| 22 m (72 ft) | Building with tower | 1991 | Frontier California INC. | 2724881 |
| 21 m (70 ft) | Pole | 2023 | At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC | 2718567 |
| 20 m (66 ft) | Pole | 2001 | Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC | 2637085 |
| 20 m (65 ft) | Pole | 2004 | Los Angeles Smsa Limited Partnership | 2640829 |
| 20 m (64 ft) | Tower | 1999 | American Towers LLC | 2635961 |
| 19 m (61 ft) | Pole | 1996 | T-mobile West LLC | 97426 |
| 19 m (61 ft) | Monopole | 1997 | Ccatt LLC | 124829 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Monopole | 2018 | Union Pacific Railroad Company | 2705331 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Pole | 2001 | Nextel West CORP. | 2644220 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Tower | 2008 | T-mobile West Tower LLC | 2653173 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Tower | 2007 | Sba Monarch Towers III, LLC | 2654022 |
| 18 m (60 ft) | Tower | 2001 | Connoisseur Media Operations, LLC | 2619493 |
When they were registered
| 1960s | 5 | 12% |
| 1970s | 1 | 2% |
| 1990s | 8 | 19% |
| 2000s | 13 | 31% |
| 2010s | 12 | 29% |
| 2020s | 3 | 7% |
Nearby places
About this data
Source is the FCC Antenna Structure Registration file of 2026-08-23. What it records is structures, not the radios mounted on them: the register cannot tell you which carrier operates from a given site.
The FCC Antenna Structure Registration database covers structures that require registration — generally those over 200 feet or near airports. Many small cells, rooftop antennas and short towers are not registered and will not appear here.
"Owner" is the entity that registered the structure, usually a tower company such as American Tower or Crown Castle. It does not indicate which carriers operate equipment on the structure.