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Cell towers in Sunnyvale, California

The FCC register lists 21 antenna structures in and around Sunnyvale. That is the 68th highest count of any place in California.

Registered structures
21
Median height
30 m (97 ft)
+26.0% vs state median
Tallest
53 m (175 ft)
Per 100k residents
13.4
population 156,577 (2025)

Overview

Sunnyvale, CA has 21 registered antenna structures on the FCC register — the 68th largest count among the 801 places in California that have any.

The register works out to 0.95 structures per square mile here.

Median height here is 30 m (97 ft), compared with 24 m (77 ft) across California as a whole.

The largest registered owner here is Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC, which holds 3 of them — 14.3% of the local total. Owner is not the same as carrier: tower companies lease space on their structures to several networks at once.

The oldest structure on file here was registered in 1992, the newest in 2022 — 30 years of build-out visible in one register.

Structure types

Pole 7
33%
Tower 6
29%
Monopole 5
24%
Building 2
10%
Utility pole 1
5%

Largest registered owners

owner is not the same as carrier
T-mobile West LLC Carrier 3
14%
Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC Tower company 3
14%
Gte Mobilnet of California Limited Partnership Other 2
10%
Pacific Gas & Electric Company Utility 2
10%
At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC Carrier 2
10%

Tallest registered structures

Height Type Built Owner ASR
53 m (175 ft) Monopole 2016 Santa Clara, County Of 2700147
36 m (118 ft) Building 1992 Pacific & Eastern Digital Transmission Service 117995
36 m (117 ft) Tower 2006 T-mobile West LLC 2649946
36 m (116 ft) Tower 2012 Pacific Gas & Electric Company 2679567
35 m (115 ft) Building 1999 Lockheed Martin Corporation 2604766
34 m (112 ft) Pole 2010 American Towers LLC 2673055
32 m (104 ft) Monopole 1994 Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC 119175
31 m (102 ft) Utility pole 2022 T-mobile West LLC 2720909
31 m (101 ft) Monopole 1995 Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC 124031
31 m (100 ft) Pole 2010 Stc Five LLC 120555
30 m (97 ft) Tower 2003 Pacific Gas & Electric Company 2670049
26 m (85 ft) Pole 2014 Gte Mobilnet of California Limited Partnership 2686693
22 m (72 ft) Tower 2009 Ccatt LLC 118140
20 m (67 ft) Pole 1995 Crown Castle Gt Company, LLC 121215
20 m (66 ft) Tower 2011 Pacific Bell Telephone Company D/b/a At&t California 99974
20 m (66 ft) Tower 2001 Sba 2012 Tc Assets, LLC 2671146
20 m (66 ft) Monopole 2021 T-mobile West LLC 2714946
20 m (64 ft) Pole 2012 At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC 2681242
19 m (62 ft) Pole 2012 At&t Mobility Spectrum LLC 2680703
17 m (54 ft) Monopole 2015 Gte Mobilnet of California Limited Partnership 2694746
14 m (47 ft) Pole 1996 State of California 99858

When they were registered

1990s 6
29%
2000s 4
19%
2010s 9
43%
2020s 2
10%

Nearby places

About this data

Figures are drawn from the FCC's public antenna structure register (2026-08-23). It covers structures that need registering — broadly those over 200 feet or close to an airport — and not the many shorter installations that carry mobile traffic.

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.