People coming off the Francés and onto the Camino del Norte expect a harder version of the same walk. It is not. It is a different walk that happens to end in the same cathedral.
For connectivity the news is mostly good: the Norte hugs the coast, the coast is where people live, and where people live there are masts. You will have signal in places the Francés would have left you staring at a wheat field.
Then Asturias happens
The stretches inland around the Picos, and the climb over to the Primitivo if you take it, are a different story. The Hospitales route is spectacular and is the one place we would genuinely tell you to download everything the night before and not count on a data connection at all.
The practical consequence: the Norte is 824 kilometres and about thirty-four days. Whatever you buy, buy it for the days, not for the gigabytes.
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