If you have an iPhone 5 that operates under the Orange mobile network and you live in some cities in Spain, 4G coverage will still resist the Apple terminal. And, as the operator itself has confirmed in its support photos, until the beginning of next year 2014, the iPhone 5 will not be able to connect to the latest technology on the market.
If you take a look at the technical characteristics of Apple equipment, both the iPhone 5 and the iPad with Retina display or the iPad mini ”” both models with the possibility of inserting SIM cards ””, it will be seen that the bands on the that it is possible to use the LTE or 4G connection, they are 800 / 1,800 MHz. What does this mean? Well, after the start of the deployment of the service offered by Orange ”” it began on July 8 ””, there are some cities in which the Cupertino terminal is unable to connect; in other words, it will continue to use 3G networks as it has been up to now.
And what are these cities? As reported in the photos themselves, after complaints from some users, customers who live in Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia will continue to not enjoy this type of connection in their terminals; In the three cities it is offered in the 2,600 MHz band. They will not be able to connect to the new service, even if they have contracted a 4G rate. According to a member of the operator, customers will be able to enjoy download speeds of up to 42 Mbps on these devices, since the current 3G network has been improved.
But beware, because this only affects, for the moment, Apple equipment; with the other terminals on the market, the speed works without problems. Some examples are the Samsung Galaxy S4 or the Sony Xperia.
Now, in cities like Murcia, Seville, Malaga, the operation of Apple devices will be completely normal. Although be careful, the full potential of the 4G network will arrive in 2014. At the beginning of January, the 800 MHz band will be released "" in Spain the date that was initially scheduled for one year later was brought forward: 2015 "".
And it is that currently, the bands reserved for the fourth generation telephone networks in Spain coincide with the bands in which the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels are broadcast. Thus, once this broadcast band is released, the 4G networks in Spain will begin to provide the promised service with download rates of up to 150 Mbps, in addition to adding new Spanish cities to the list of areas where the new service offered so far by Vodafone, Orange and Yoigo.
Now, this release, and the new adaptation of DTT in Spain, will make consumers have to make a new expenditure in their respective neighborhood communities (in case of living in blocks) and adapt the collective antennas again. And it is that in Spain it was decided to continue with the plans without taking into account the deployment of future LTE or 4G networks, and which were already being talked about in Europe. If that had been the case, the first expenditure in 2010 would have been sufficient.
