The Government will award 508 million to provide 5G to small municipalities
The Government of Spain has awarded aid from the first call of the UNICO Redes Activas program, which will allocate 508 million euros to finance the infrastructure necessary to provide 5G coverage to more than 1.8 million inhabitants of municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants in which there is no mobile coverage of at least 50 Mbps in the downstream direction.
The final resolution published by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, will increase the access to 5G coverage in hundreds of municipalities through 7.330 antenas por toda España, 174 de ellas de nueva creación. Además, se prevé dotar de cobertura a 30.000 kilómetros de la red de carreteras españolas.
El reparto definitivo por provincias ha dejado a Telefónica como la empresa que mayor cuantía ha obtenido, recibiendo más de 298 millones de euros para equipar 4.123 emplazamientos. En segundo lugar, Orange Spain ha superado los 115 millones de euros para habilitar de 5G a 1.505 antenas. Por último, Vodafone España ha obtenido más de 66 millones de euros con 1.220 emplazamientos asignados, mientras que la UTE Avatel-Xfera ha conseguido más de 28 millones para dotar de 5G a 482 emplazamientos.
The Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, María González Veracruz, has stressed that this final resolution “is one more demonstration of how the Government is structuring our country technologically, reaching almost two million Spaniards who live in small municipalities, and their visitors. After this deployment, they will be able to access the possibilities that 5G offers and apply them in activities agricultural, industrial, tourist or to the qualitative improvement of its public services provided in a more efficient and precise way.”
Once this call has been resolved, the Government of Spain intends to launch UNICO Activas II imminently with almost 88 million additional destined for areas that had not been selected in this one. The work of mapping actions has already begun with the operators to locate the non-selected areas, with the aim of launching a base order with terms very similar to those governed in the first call.
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