Really depends on exactly you choose to live, when you´ve done that ask around and see what the people in your vicinity say. Generally speaking you will have faster, cheaper and more reliable connections in the bigger towns and cities

 

It took me 4 years to persuade Iberbanda to give me a signal-even though I was in line of sight of a base station! I do live in the campo-about 45k north of Malaga in the mountains. Because of the sort of territory and low population it's quite difficult to get a signal.If you live in a town and have a land-line phone then I would think no problem.Most of the providers do maps on the internet of areas they cover--but I would double check first!There are lots of rural places with no signal.
Iberbanda are worth checking for the campo as they are subsidised by the Junta to provide broadband to the rural areas.

 

We live in a small country town in the Sierra de Cadiz and the ADSL broadband service here is excellent. We switched from Telefonica to Jazztel last year - better price, better customer service and better signal -we regularly get a 4 or 5 Mb. Prices have come down a lot too since we first moved here two years ago, as there is more competition now.

If you have a phone line already you should be fine, they just send a router through the mail together with an installation CD. If you don't have a phone line you have to wait for Telefonica to install one. That really is a matter of where you live, some people wait years ...

 

Thanks all.