Spain currently has a mobile coverage that reaches 99% of the population (not the territory) if we add the four coverages (Movistar, Vodafone, Orange or Yoigo) that we have available today. But hey, not all operators offer the same coverage in any area from the country.
Some time ago we told you about a website that shows you on a map the coverage they offer Ms Mvil/Yoigo, Movistar, Vodafone and Orange in the 2G, 3G, 4G, 4G+ and 5G bands. In this article, you can also see the detailed coverage of each MVNO, but if you want to know what mobile antennas are in your area and which operators they belong to, there is a public website for it. It’s called Infoantenas, let’s see it.
A map with all the antennas, their frequencies and their exposure level
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, for a long time, has made available to users a public map that shows the exact location of all radio stations of the different operators and the levels of radioelectric exposure of each of them.
We talk about the service information on radio stations and exposure levels (NER) -known as Infoantenas-, which contains data from the checks carried out by the technicians of the Provincial Telecommunications Inspection Headquarters, as well as the certifications presented to the Ministry by the mobile telephone operators.
It is available in a text-only version and in a cartographic version, both with a somewhat archaic interface (no mobile adaptation). We are going to focus on the latter, which allows you to know directly on the map if you have mobile antennas nearbywhich operators they belong to, the frequency bands they use and their exposure levels.
On the left of the map, we can choose the area view or the map view, while in the right column it is possible to select the province and the municipality so that you position yourself on that area (it is not necessary to put the address). If not, you can always scroll manually.
Keep in mind, however, that to display the icons of the mobile phone stations (purple circles), you must zoom in to the last four levelswhich appear darker in the bar.
Each of these purple icons is a mobile phone station: by clicking on any of them, you can see information related to that antenna on the left of the map. That information includes the type of station (all are mobile phone stations), its code and the exact address. The code is what tells us which operator it belongs to: Telefnica Mviles, Orange, Vodafone or Xfera Mviles (Yoigo, Grupo MsMvil.
Also, in ‘Details’, we can press ‘View’ to access more information about that station, which will appear in a new window. In the ‘Technical characteristics’ section, we can check the frequency bands assigned to that antenna, while the ‘Levels measured in the environment’ section shows us recorded exposure levels at various points around that station.
Beneath all these data, we can read the phrase “The levels measured comply with current legal regulations, be well below the levels established reference levels”. According to the Ministry itself, the most restrictive reference level for radio communication services is 200 W/cm2, but come on, that phrase is repeated in all the stations because, obviously, they are all below the limit that marks the law.
