With this call, it exceeds the 1,060 million invested by the Government since 2018, which are digital backbone of Spain through the largest fixed connectivity network in Europe.
The Government of Spain, through the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, has awarded €24.5 million in a new call for the universalisation of the deployment of ultrafast broadband in homes and businesses in the country.
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Government awards 24.5 million to bring broadband to 15,000 homes
The final resolution of the UNICO Broadband programme in its 2024 call published by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, it will facilitate the arrival of fibre to 15,000 homes and businesses that still did not have access to ultrafast broadband.
There will be six operators that will develop the deployment promoted through this call. Precisely, the advanced state of fibre deployment has been decisive for this call to finally award projects in a total of 38 provinces in Spain, leaving out the remaining provinces, which already have a practically completed technical deployment.
This new award is included in the actions of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan with the financing of the European Next Generation EU funds. The sum of these 24.5 million to what has been previously invested by the Government since 2018, now totals 1,060 million public euros invested in the digital backbone of Spain, through what is already catalogued as the largest fixed connectivity network in Europe, according to the latest OECD report.
The Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, Antonio Hernando, said that ‘this new call for proposals is the culmination of a collective success achieved through public-private collaboration. Spain is the European country with the best fibre optic connectivity and the third among OECD countries. We have more than 95% of homes connected to ultrafast broadband, allowing Spain to consolidate its position as a rising pole in the global technological sphere’.
Hernando emphasised that a country with such a large area, with such a particular orography and thousands of scattered populations that manages to universalise access to fixed connectivity is the greatest guarantee of opportunities in the digital era. In addition, we have the Conectate35.es satellite service for remote locations, providing fixed access anywhere in the country. In short, the leadership of this government is marking a before and after in terms of digitalisation, reindustrialisation and ecological transition with renewable energies.