Government indicates the goal of lack of mobile coverage in rural catalys | News from Catalonia

Castle de Farfanya is the Lida Municipality of 530 residents. “In November, a tractor working in Balaguer has broken a cable and for two weeks, we have no mobile or fixed telephony,” explained its mayor Omar Noulary (ERC). Similar coverage incidents are often occurred in many villages in rural Catalonia. The mayor lamented, “We are not financially profitable operation with us for municipalities and companies with a few customers.” Life in the municipality does not change significantly when the blackout leaves Catalonia without a blackout mobile phone coverage last Monday. The mayor was activated, as usual in the town’s Lida, to inform the neighbors what the posters of the bulletin board are happening.

Sergi Andrew (together) Rocafort de Quernal (Taragona, 240 inhabitants) mayor. Error in the repeater in the summer and departed for weeks without coverage for neighbors and two restaurants And two rural houses in Rocfortort. The Catalan Executive was identified as a target, before Monday’s blackout, improved the connectivity of all the people of Catalonia and forced operators for all the municipalities that caused the mayors in connectivity.

Salvador Ila’s Executive “Challenge” is a solution to the solution of coverage issues and described the digital transformation albert tort of the digital transformation of the Generaltat, Albert Tort. After the events in several municipalities, the Minister of Presidency Albert Dalmou, called a meeting at Palau de La Generalitat in January Along with the Cat also with government representatives and organizations such as the Catholon Association of Municipalities, the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia, the Association of Micropubolose de Cataluna or the lobby of the Rural Republic.

“Telecommunication operators have customers. Those clients depend on the spatial, social and economic balance of Catalonia’s service on Catalonia and these companies.” They found that a series of guidelines were to be created between the operator, the government and the municipalities at the meeting. “In Pyrinese, in Pyrinese, mayors have events that freeze services without finding the solution. The first goal represents the Secretary of the Teliculacummy, saying,” Municipalities must play a prominent role and information when the events should be influenced by their municipalities. ” “But, in addition, we are not only talking about the events. We need to raise the information between them to coordinate in the Digital Fiber Optic Infrastructure, 5G …” he concluded.

The government has announced that a total of 6,164 government offices from 2026 and 2031 -Colegios, police stations, hospitals and other dependencies- connected by the optical fiber of public ownership operated by Generalitat. It costs more than 200 million euros and tries to leave the third party infrastructure for the “digital sovereign” of Catalonia. The Minister of Presidency, Albert Dalmou, displaying optical fiber on all roads to reach all municipalities in the “priorities” of the government.

This year’s Public Fiber Optic Network reaches 8,000 km and offers an access point for all Cat also before the end of the Legislature, which is to convert Catania into Spain’s first community to have a public network of these features. “This network cannot market it but we can rent it to the operators so that they can reach the places and municipalities that they don’t come,” Avanza tort. The Secretary of Telecommunications has very private competitiveness in metropolitan areas, but in rural areas. Currently, connectivity reaches 96% of municipalities. Government strategy is to reach the entire territory that prefers optical fiber and is 5G or satellite where it is impossible.

Rosa Vila (Junts) Amer Mayor in Girona. Vila has revealed that there have been cuts on the Internet and phone since October last year. “We all rely on the network in Amer. We all have a sinful service if the world is digital, if the world is digital, we all have a sinful service.” The mayor now knows who to communicate from the operators to complain about the fall in the service, thanks to the intermediary of the Cat also, and thanks to the intermediary of the Cat also.

Information to the Secretary of Telecommunications is fundamental. “The first thing we force the operators is to give the operating phone when the problem is found. Mayors can call these events from Monday to Sunday. We have also requested a second -level technical coordination and there is also a consultation point with the telecommunications secretariat to the operators.” The fact that mayors have a communicator of the company to perform these events are the “published” for the new telecommunication model and wants to maintain the “key” Generalitat. “This is a paradigm shift. We are not leaving the private that only works in the market, but the administration is also added.”

The deputy mayor of Uldecona, Menica Fabra (PSC), denied that the shops could not use the dataphone due to lack of coverage in the entire nucleus of their municipality. “Before, we need a plan to improve the coverage of rural areas while trying to contact town hall operators, thereby there are opportunities for the rest of the rest,” Fabra condemned.

The tort ensures that a good part of Generaltat’s efforts focuses on 4% of the territory with connection issues. “There are many improvement margin in Terrace Dell Ebrey, Pyrinese, Bergeude or Law Plana de Lilida,” said the Secretary of Telecommunications. In addition, the Generalitat is creating a “risk map” depending on whether there are incidents in the coastal areas or winter pyrinese, the “critical and country problem” is considered to quickly resolve these events and activated the protocols.

Along with the mayor of Omar Naumri Castella De Ferfanya, one of the small municipalities of the rural re -OP was one of the lobby promoters. “We are on the right way, but there is not much. Connectivity for financial promotion is fundamental and we will soon meet with operators for medical, health care services, work … our municipalities.”