Phone and internet in campo

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Phone and internet in campo

Postby Upthemountain » Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:35 pm

Hi all, new to this forum so I apologise if this question has been asked more than once. We have just bought a property which doesn’t have a phone line or internet service. We don’t know how to get a line installed or even if we can get one as we don’t have a proper address (no post delivery) but are only five mins up in the hills above Estepona. Does anyone know How I go about finding out if a fixed line is available as I fear my Spanish is too limited to try and explain where we live to them. Is there a map of coverage I could find us on to see for myself like they do in the U.K. for mobile coverage?

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Re: Phone and internet in campo

Postby Enrique » Tue Oct 08, 2019 6:29 am

Good morning Upthemountain,

Do a search on Google (there are other search engines)..........internet wimax broadband estepona


Example.

https://www.excom.es/en/coverage.html

For me in the mountains of Jaén ............Vodafone works well for Mobile phone.
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Re: Phone and internet in campo

Postby costakid » Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:57 am

Upthemountain wrote:Hi all, new to this forum so I apologise if this question has been asked more than once. We have just bought a property which doesn’t have a phone line or internet service. We don’t know how to get a line installed or even if we can get one as we don’t have a proper address (no post delivery) but are only five mins up in the hills above Estepona. Does anyone know How I go about finding out if a fixed line is available as I fear my Spanish is too limited to try and explain where we live to them. Is there a map of coverage I could find us on to see for myself like they do in the U.K. for mobile coverage?
Do you get mobile phone signal? If you have a smart phone check the various suppliers by going to network services and see who has the strongest signal. If no fixed line available (FIJO) then you may have to use a 4G mobile service.

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Re: Phone and internet in campo

Postby olive » Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:21 am

Movistar do an unlimited internet package using 4g/3g SIM based kit. Only for customers where there is no landline copper or fibre infrastructure. Do a search on Fusion radio internet.
Last time I looked the internet was 15 euros a month on offer, normal price 46 euros.

You have to have a landline with it that is fed out of the SIM wall mounted box. You can also have digital TV and a couple of mobiles as add on packages.

Enrique. I tried doing a Google search for other search engines. None came up. Are you sure?! :lolno:

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Re: Phone and internet in campo

Postby Upthemountain » Tue Oct 08, 2019 12:04 pm

Thank you. We have used our UK mobiles on 4G whilst there and got a phone signal through Orange I think but we are looking to change once there in a couple of weeks and want UK tv etc which think might be out of the question with 4G?

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Re: Phone and internet in campo

Postby gerryh » Tue Oct 08, 2019 12:46 pm

4G or even 3G, should be more than adequate for UK tv via the internet provide you have a download speed of 4 Mbps or more.
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