El 5G is increasingly present in our lives. There is not a day that is not talked about about him. And what remains, because operators are expanding their deployment network as time goes by. What are the latest news regarding this technology?
For now, the only operators offering 5G coverage, according to the telephony expert Roams, are Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, MásMóvil and Yoigo. The level of expansion of 5G by each operator is different.
Movistar is in the lead with 1.253 municipalities of all the autonomous communities of Spain. According to data from the company itself, Movistar's 5G already reaches 80% of the population.
It follows Telstra which has just incorporated 118 new municipalities and now reaches a total of 553 cities and municipalities of 39 provinces such as Álava, Alicante, Almería, Asturias, Ávila, Badajoz, Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Bizkaia, Cáceres, Cádiz, Cantabria, Ceuta, Córdoba, A Coruña, Guipúzcoa, Granada, Huelva, Huesca, Jaén, León, Lugo, Madrid, Malaga, Melilla, Murcia, Navarra, Ourense, Palencia, Las Palmas, Pontevedra, La Rioja, Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid, Zamora and Zaragoza. Specifically, the MásMóvil Group brand reaches 39% of the Spanish population, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Orange offers its 5G network in 442 municipalities distributed in the provinces of Álava, Alicante, Almería, Badajoz, Baleares, Barcelona, Cáceres, Cádiz, Cantabria, Castellón, Córdoba, La Coruña, Granada, Guipúzcoa, Huelva, Jaén, León, Lugo, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Navarra, Orense, Palencia, Las Palmas, Pontevedra, La Rioja, Salamanca, Seville, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valencia, Valladolid, Vizcaya, Zamora, Zaragoza as well as Ceuta and Melilla.
Vodafone's 5G network now reaches 25 Spanish cities: A Coruña, Alicante, Badajoz, Barcelona, Benidorm, Bilbao, Castellón, Gijón, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Logroño, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Pamplona, Palma de Mallorca, San Sebastián, Santander, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Seville, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Zaragoza.
For its part, MásMóvil is available in Ceuta and Melilla and in 19 cities such as Alicante, Alcobendas, Almería, Ávila, Barcelona, Bilbao, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Logroño, Huesca, Jaén, Madrid, Malaga, Melilla, Ourense, Salamanca, San Sebastián, Seville, Valencia, Vitoria
What cities have 5G deployed by all companies?
Vitoria, Alicante, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Santander, La Coruña, San Sebastian, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Pamplona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Logroño, Seville, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valencia, Valladolid, Bilbao, Zaragoza are the cities that, for now, have 5G deployed in some area by all companies.
However, there are still cities that do not have 5G deployed. Among them is Lleida and up to 60% of the La Mancha community, specifically, Albacete, Ciudad Real and Guadalajara.
All the and advantages offered by 5G are numerous:
- Improve the quality of coverage, especially in rural areas
- There is a higher network speed both browsing and downloading files
- Improve latency, that is, the time it takes to access the content is reduced to below 10 milliseconds
- Improve resolution of videos and video calls
- Increase the number of connected devices to the network without losing quality in the connection
In conclusion, in order to enjoy this new technology, it is necessary:
- Having a compatible device with 5G technology
- Reside in a coverage area Operator 5G
- Having a 5G rate, either mobile or convergent depending on the operator