Switching Mobile or Fibre in Spain: Portability Rules and Exit Costs

Switching Mobile or Fibre in Spain: Portability Rules and Exit Costs

Switching telecom providers in Spain has become a mass-market ritual: according to regulator CNMC, 491,629 mobile numbers were ported in July 2026 alone, up 1.4% year on year, alongside 89,367 fixed lines. The rules governing that churn sit in the 2022 General Telecommunications Law (Ley 11/2022), consumer protection legislation and the 2009 Charter of Users’ … Read more

Most Homes Don’t Need Gigabit Fiber: The Real Streaming Math

Most Homes Don’t Need Gigabit Fiber: The Real Streaming Math

Fiber-to-the-home is now the default fixed connection in Spain, but the speed debate is still shaped by marketing rather than real workloads. The CNMC’s statistics note, published on 23 September 2026, reported 18.3 million FTTH lines in July, within a fixed broadband market that passed 20 million lines for the first time. For most households, … Read more

Spain’s 400 Prefix Goes Live: Why Cold-Call Rules Still Leave Spam Gaps

Spain’s 400 Prefix Goes Live: Why Cold-Call Rules Still Leave Spam Gaps

Spain has switched on a dedicated dialling range for telemarketing. From 17 October, companies covered by the country’s customer service legislation may only place commercial calls from nine-digit numbers beginning with 400 — a change that gives consumers a recognisable signal and, in theory, a single switch to silence it. The range derives from a … Read more