[Gocamino] Camino Mozarabe Cell phone reception?

[Rebekah Scott]

That Movistar map isn´t worth the pixels it´s written with. The other phone companies have similar coverage maps, and they are a far cry from reality, too. They are meant to lend certainty to people who insist on certainty, but they are dealing in strange sound waves and other magical science things that defy map-makers and PR graphics departments. 
And people who insist on certainty. 
 
Spain is a strange and mystical place. It laughs in the face of anyone who wants any certainty about anything. Even the phone company... and Spanish phones may be one of the most mystical things in the whole Iberian world. 

Rebekah Scott 
www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

--- On Fri, 1/21/11, Richard Ferguson <richard at fergusonsculpture.com> wrote:


From: Richard Ferguson <richard at fergusonsculpture.com>
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Camino Mozarabe Cell phone reception?
To: GASpangler at hotmail.com
Cc: "†GoCamino OakApple" <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 5:02 AM


Actually Movistar Espana does publish coverage information.   

http://www.servicios.movistar.es/web/movistar/cobertura

You will need to select a province and city, but once you do that, you will see a map, and you can zoom or use the arrows to move around.   Unfortunately, they don't let you zoom out far enough to cover a large area, but you can see the details on your planned route.

Of course, real world coverage is not the same as the published data, as it depends on many factors, including the building, etc.   Generally, coverage will be better at the top of the hill than the bottom of a valley, as cell phone frequencies are more or less line of sight.

Richard



On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Grant Spangler wrote:

> 
> Ralph,
> 
> Unfortunately, Spain's largest mobile phone carrier, Telefonica (DBA 'Movistar'), does not publish coverage maps. 
> Here is a set of interactive maps of the 'other guys' .. you need to zoom ALL the way in on these ..  
> Vodafone: http://www.sensorly.com/Mapa/GSM/Spain/Vodafone/gsm-21401
> Orange: http://www.sensorly.com/Mapa/GSM/Spain/Orange/gsm-21403
> TME: http://www.sensorly.com/Mapa/GSM/Spain/TME/gsm-21405
> 
> We had nearly contiguous coverage OUTDOORS on the Camino Frances. Indoors is a whole 'nother thing: stone and masonry edifices kill cellular coverage quite proficiently. I would anticipate reasonable coverage along highways and train tracks connecting Granada, Cordoba and Sevilla. Once you head north of Sevilla, I would expect coverage to range from just adequate to very poor in some locations. Sorry there's not better news. Mobile phone carriers here in the US publish grandiose and hopeful coverage maps, but not everyone on foreign shores wants to make a similar statement. Spain is very mountainous, and solid mobile coverage is a difficult thing to pull off. I don't blame them for playing it close to the chest.
> 
> Buen Camino, 
>  
> Grant
>  
> http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
> Resources for the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago 
> 
> 
> 
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