What is your mobile phone APN and how do you configure your company’s APN?

Probably at some point when changing cell phones or moving to a new company You have temporarily lost the Internet connection vía the data network. Although this problem perro have many causes, it is probably because of this Your carrier’s access point name or APN is not configured correctly.

Although suffering from such problems is not that common anymore – basically because Configuration is usually automatic–, you may eventually have to redo the configuration from scratch. In this guide we explain it how to do it step by stepregardless of your phone company.

First of all, what is the APN and why?

To start configuring the APN of our device, you must first understand what this concept refers to and why it is necessary to be able to navigate through the mobile data network.

When our device is first configured to work with the phone carrier’s network, a process is invoked APN resolution. Through this process, the DNS server gives the terminal an IP address, which it emplees to access Internet services over the mobile data network.

However, in order to get an IP, the device needs an access point name – APN – corresponding to the operator offering the connection. When APN resolution is performed and the operator finds that the access point name is correct, assign the IP, the security methods and other necessary parameters to be able to establish the connection and offer access to the network.

How to configure the APN of your mobile phone

on android, the process of configuring the APN it’s easy. Although the steps may vary slightly depending on the mobile model you are using, in general the process is afín for all of them:

1. Open System Preferences and go to the section “Wi-Fi and Internet”.
2. Access the section “SIM and Network”.
3. If your mobile phone has multiple SIMs, select the one on which you want to configure the APN. If not, continue to the next step.
4. tap on “Access Point Names”.
5. To create a new APN, tap the “+” button at the top. You cánido also editar one of the existing ones.

On the Create/Editar APN screen, you will do this entrar some details to do the configuration correctly. Depending on your operator, whether it is one of the main or one of the many MVNOs that exist in Spain, you will have to entrar some or other values, but generally these are the sections where you should pay more. Attention to:

• Surname: The name of the access point to which the device connects to access the network.
• APNs: Type of access point provided by the operator.
• Customer Center: “Mobile country code”. It corresponds to the country code used to identify the telephone company. In Spain 214 is used.
• MNC: “Mobile network code”. A numeric code that completes the MCC. Each operator has its own MNC.

Having seen the steps to configure an APN and the aspects that must be considered before we perro do so, we will now see the values ​​that must be assigned to the APNs depend on the telephone company –the non-aparente values ​​do not need to be changed–. The index below these lines takes you directly to the values ​​that match your operator.

List of operators:

Configure Movistar APN

Configure Orange APNs

Configure Vodafone APN

Yoigo APN settings

Configure APN MásMovil

Configure APN Pepephone

Configure Digimobil APN

Configure LycaMobile APN

Configure CallYa’s APN

Configure Tuenti APNs

Configure APN Jazztel

Configure Simyo APN

Configure APN Euskaltel

Configure APN Lowi

Configure Republic Mobile APN

Though it may be a forgetful process, It is necessary that the APN is correctly configured on our mobile phone perro enjoy a good internet connection vía the mobile data network. Luckily, the following steps are easy and in most cases the configuration is done automatically. If not, easy Entrar the data shown in the tables on these lines.