Spain hikes minimum internet speed to 10 Mbps
The Spanish government has increased the minimum internet download speed accessible by all inhabitants via the country’s “universal service” provision from 1 Mbps to 10 Mbps. Find out more about minimum internet speed in Spain below.
It may seem like some kind of joke living in the year 2022, but until a few hours ago the minimum speed for Internet access in Spain was set to 1Mbps. A mega, to understand us. If we look at the offers of the fiber operators, they multiply this minimum by 100 and even by 300. That mega comes from the copper cable accesses that still operate in our country.
But the Government is already fulfilling the different procedures to carry out its new General Telecommunications Law, LGT. Said Law establishes a roadmap to continue growing at speed in our country and replaces the previous LGT from 2014. Now, after a modification, the new LGT establishes that the minimum speed in Spain must be 10Mbps. And keep going up.
10 Mbps for all at least minimum internet speed spain
Although the new General Telecommunications Law has been in process since the last stretch of 2021, yesterday it underwent a modification in one of its steps by the Council of Deputies. The part that spoke of the minimum speed to offer Internet in Spain was updated and said figure was multiplied. We went from 1Mbps to 10Mbps for all citizens of the territory.
As indicated by Broadband, Movistar currently promotes its ‘Universal Service’ guaranteeing at least 1Mbps download and 256Kbps upload, limiting monthly traffic to 5GB of download in total. Once this limit is exceeded, the ‘Universal Service’ lowers its speed to 128Kbps download and 64Kbps upload. That will have to change after the Law is approved.
“The minimum speed of access to a broadband Internet is set at 10 Mbit per second downstream.”
The approval of this new General Telecommunications Law will not only mean that the minimum Internet access is at the 10Mbps that we indicated, it also establishes that 30Mbps will have to be reached by 2030. minimum internet speed spain
Fastest Providers in Spain
Spain ranked 55th in the world for mobile speeds and 10th for fixed broadband.
Speedtest Intelligence reveals Movistar was the fastest mobile operator among top providers in Spain in Q1 2022 with a median download speed of 52.44 Mbps, Orange is the second one with 39.35.
