Spanien: Netzabdeckung

Was die Zahlen zu Spanien bedeuten

Zwei Zahlen zählen, und nur eine davon zitiert jeder Anbieter. Die typische Geschwindigkeit, 79 Mbit/s, sagt Ihnen, wie ein guter Moment aussieht.

Das zehnte Perzentil, 23 Mbit/s, ist die Zahl, die sich zu lesen lohnt. Es ist das Tempo im schlechtesten Zehntel des Tages, wenn die Zelle über dem Bahnhof voll ist und alle um Sie herum ebenfalls darin sind. Ein Land mit hohem Median und niedrigem Boden funktioniert wunderbar, bis zu dem Moment, in dem Sie es wirklich brauchen.

Wenn die Reise von Videoanrufen oder Hotspot abhängt, planen Sie mit dem Wert für volle Zeiten und nicht mit dem typischen.

Was in Spanien passiert, wenn das Netz voll ist

Überlastung ist kein Fehler, sondern ein Dienstagabend. Die Frage ist, was Ihre eSIM dagegen tun kann, und bei den meisten Reise-eSIMs lautet die Antwort: nichts. Ein Großhandelsvertrag pro Land, ein Netz, und kein Ausweg außer, auf der Straße stehend, eine zweite eSIM bei jemand anderem zu kaufen.

Hier läuft der Orbislo-Verkehr über Movistar und Orange. Wenn das Netz, in dem Sie sind, schlechter wird, holen wir Sie mitten auf der Reise in ein anderes, ohne dass Sie fragen, und sagen es Ihnen hinterher, statt Sie im Moment zu unterbrechen.

Spanien: Mobilfunkanbieter

• Market share: Spain had 63.24 million mobile lines in June 2026, or 127.6 per 100 inhabitants. Movistar, Vodafone and MasOrange held 85.5 percent of them, rising to 98.1 percent with Digi, according to the competition and markets regulator CNMC.
• MasOrange: The European Commission approved the Orange and MasMovil joint venture with conditions on 20 February 2024, finding that it would create Spain's largest operator by customer numbers. Before the deal MasMovil relied on national roaming on Orange where its own network did not reach.
• Digi: To clear the MasOrange merger, MasMovil spectrum at 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz and 3.5 GHz went to Digi, then Spain's largest virtual operator, so it could build its own network, together with an optional national roaming deal for areas that network does not reach.

Spanien: ältere Netze

• In December 2025 the digital transformation ministry opened a consultation on retiring 2G and 3G, to set switch off calendars by operator and technology and to guarantee that calls to 112 keep working. It closed on 20 January 2026.
• The 2G and 3G switch off frees spectrum mainly in the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz bands for 4G and 5G. The ministry singled out eCall in cars, alarms, lifts and tracking devices as services that need migrating first.
• Vodafone Spain began switching off 3G in stages in 2022, and by the end of 2024 it was gone in the main cities and metropolitan areas such as Madrid and Barcelona. A device that relies on 3G alone can no longer connect there.
• The Canary Islands used European 112 Day in February 2026 to warn about possible failures reaching 112 after 2G and 3G networks close, a risk for older phones and devices that still depend on those networks.

Spanien: 5G

• The auction of 200 MHz in the 3.6 to 3.8 GHz band under Order ETU/531/2018, for 5G took 34 rounds and raised 437.65 million euros in bids, more than four times the reserve price.
• Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange applied to bid in the 700 MHz auction that began in July 2021, after the band was cleared of digital terrestrial television during 2020. The auction offered 75 MHz in seven national licences, capped at 2 x 15 MHz of paired 700 MHz spectrum per operator.
• The December 2022 auction of the 26 GHz band raised 36.2 million euros: Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange took 1,800 MHz of the 2,400 MHz offered nationally, on 20 year licences renewable once.
• The government's 2025 broadband coverage report, published in May 2026, puts 5G coverage at 99.27 percent of the population and above 96 percent in rural areas. Standalone 5G reaches 98.1 percent, and the 3.5 GHz band 89.99 percent.
• 5G carried 23 percent of Spain's mobile data traffic in the first quarter of 2026, after growing 54.2 percent in a year, while total mobile broadband traffic rose 17.8 percent to 2.7 million terabytes.

Spanien: Hinweise zum Netz

• The October 2024 DANA floods and the 28 April 2025 Iberian power blackout both caused significant interruptions to Spanish telecom services. A draft royal decree would require operators to prepare contingency plans for such incidents and keep calls to 112 working.
• Under the draft resilience decree, certain network infrastructure would need enough backup power to keep running for several hours during a blackout, with protocols to prioritise some kinds of traffic in a crisis.