A measuring apparatus (20) for measuring service quality in an area in a communication system, in which a plurality of base stations (10a-10e) use one frequency band for transmitting downlink signals, includes: a receiver configured to receive constant power signals that are the downlink signals transmitted by the base stations through constant power channels in which transmission powers are constant; a reception power measuring unit (22) configured to measure reception powers of the constant power signals transmitted by the respective base stations; a reception power selector (23) configured to select a reception power which is a base for measurement of the quality in the area, out of the reception powers measured by the reception power measuring unit; and an area quality measuring unit configured to measure the quality in the area on the basis of the reception power selected by the reception power selector, and a total of the reception powers not selected by the reception power selector.