Spanish operators have been accelerating 5G deployments during 2021 and all carriers already offer 5G in the country’s main urban areas as well as in medium-sized cities. In this article, we briefly describe the current state of 5G deployments by Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone and...
Spain planning to open up mmWave 5G with 26 GHz band assignments
The Spanish government has kicked off the process to auction more spectrum for 5G mobile services in the country.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation recently published a public consultation on the...
The Spanish government aims to award spectrum in the 26 GHz band for the provision of 5G between the end of 2021 and the beginning of next year, Europa Press reported, citing remarks from the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Intelligent Infrastructures, Roberto...
Masmovil is using 3.5 GHz for its 5G offering
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in 553 towns and cities in 39 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the company said in a release.
The carrier’s 5G service is...
The Spanish government raised a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, with local operators Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange securing these key frequencies to expand 5G services.
The Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs detailed that the government raised around...
Spanish carrier Telefónica confirmed that it will participate in the auction of the 700 MHz band for 5G, which will be held next week.
JoaquÃn Mata, Director of Operations, Network and IT at Telefónica Spain, said: “Telefónica has a clear commitment to the development of...
Ericsson: '5G Core is a fundamental piece of the 5G network'
Ericsson has been selected by Vodafone Spain to support the deployment of the country’s first pre-commercial network with a 5G Standalone (SA) core. In addition, the Swedish vendor will support the carrier’s entire cloud-native...
The Spanish government said it has received requests from telecommunications operators Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange to participate in the upcoming auction of 700MHz frequencies.
In the auction, a total of 75 MHz divided into 60 MHz for upstream and downstream communications, and 15MHz for downstream...
U.K. carrier Vodafone launched a commercial pilot of 5G Standalone service in London, Manchester and Cardiff, the company said in a release.
The commercial pilot will focus on testing new capabilities being introduced as part of 5G Standalone technologies, such as network slicing. It will...
Spanish operator Telefónica has extended the coverage of its 5G network to over 80% of the country’s population as of the end of the first quarter of 2021, having installed more than 4,300 nodes that offers coverage to more than 37 million inhabitants.
In a...
Vodafone Spain has activated its 5G network in a total of 25 cities across the country, the telco said in a release.
The telco said that it has recently launched the technology in Toledo, Castellón de la Plana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas...
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 298 towns and cities in 38 provinces across the country, the telco said in a statement.
According to the telco, 5G coverage already reaches 23% of the Spanish population.
Orange said it expects its 5G network to...
The Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation announced it has awarded the remaining two 10-megahertz blocks of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band to local carriers Orange and Telefonica.
The Spanish government had awarded frequencies in the 3.5 GHz band in two previous...
Orange Spain expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the population by 2022, Spanish news site Xataka Movil reported.
The operator announced the plans in a press conference following the publication of its fourth-quarter results, in which the telco revealed that it already offers...
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 121 towns and cities in 39 provinces across the country, according to local press reports.
Some of the cities covered by Orange’s non-standalone (NSA) 5G network include Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Malaga, Zaragoza, Logroño, Leon, Santander,...
Spanish operators have been accelerating 5G deployment plans over the last months and all carriers already offer 5G in the country's main urban areas as well as in medium-sized cities. In this article, we briefly describe the current state of 5G deployments by Telefonica,...
Spanish operator Telefonica has already reached its 5G coverage goals for the year and now provides this technology in over 1,200 towns and cities across the country, the carrier said in a release.
Telefonica said that its 5G network infrastructure currently covers 76% of the...
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 45 cities across the country, the telco said in a blog post.
Some of the cities covered by Orange’s non-standalone (NSA) 5G network includes Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Malaga, Zaragoza, Logroño and Pamplona.
Orange also said it...
Spanish operator Orange has expanded its 5G coverage to three new cities after launching the new network technology in September.
The new cities covered by Orange’s 5G network are Zaragoza, Logroño and Pamplona, which adds to Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Malaga.
Orange also said it...
Spanish operator Telefonica has already activated its 5G network in 640 towns and cities across the country, local newspaper El Espanol reported, citing the telco’s CTO, Enrique Blanco.
According to the report, Telefonica already provides its 5G service to approximately 42% of the Spanish population....
Spanish operator Telefonica has switched on its 5G network in all of Spain's 50 provincial capitals, as well as in 400 other localities across the country, just sox weeks after announcing the launch of non-standalone (NSA) 5G commercial services local newspaper Cinco Dias reported.
According...
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is now offering 5G service in 15 cities across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the company said in a release.
The carrier said that the 5G service is being offered via a combination of own infrastructure and an...
Spanish operator Orange has launched commercial 5G services in Spain using equipment provided by Ericsson, the latter said in a release.
The carrier initially launched 5G technology in Madrid and Barcelona with the deployment of Ericsson’s 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and core products and...
Telefónica has commercially launched 5G services in Spain, the telco said in a release.
The European operator said that 75% of the Spanish population will have access to 5G by the end of the year.
“The launch of our 5G network constitutes a leap forward towards...
