The Government’s deputy delegate in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, highlighted today in Abadín the new impulse of the Government to complete the ultra-fast broadband connection in the province of Lugo with 4.6 million euros. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has launched the third call for the UNICO Broadband program that will bring optical fiber to 2,319 families and companies in remote and isolated areas of Lugo. “The Government of Pedro Sánchez invests 27.1 million in the province, among the three calls for the plan, extending the fiber to 80,503 homes and demonstrating its true commitment to end the digital divide, guaranteeing 100% coverage of high-speed Internet access to the more than 300,000 Lucenses,” said Rodríguez.
The subdelegate in the province traveled this Friday to Abadín to hold a meeting with the mayor, José María López, the municipal corporation and neighbors and neighbors, in which they addressed the advances of this program in the municipality, present in the first two calls of the UNICO Broadband, and which will bring the ultra-fast connection to 1,566 homes and small and medium enterprises located in 464 points of the city where to date they do not have this technology.
"We want our municipalities to be connected so that people can install and develop their life projects, so that our youth stay and have opportunities and, above all, to safeguard the future of our rural," said Isabel Rodríguez, who stressed the need for training in digital skills of citizens "so that no one is left behind."
This edition of the UNICO Broadband Program continues the implementation in 2021 and 2022 and is intended to universalize ultra-fast broadband coverage via fiber as a tool for social cohesion within the framework of the Government Recovery Plan. “This new aid allows us to continue moving forward with the deployment of the necessary infrastructures to guarantee adequate connectivity to all the population of the province with the firm commitment that in 2025 all the municipalities of Lugo are connected to the Internet by broadband,” said Isabel Rodríguez.
In the case of Lugo, like Galicia, the households and companies benefiting from this initiative are in ‘white zones’, those that do not have a coverage of speed networks of at least 30 Mbps, nor plans for its allocation for the next three years. “With this plan we ensure that Abadín and the other 66 municipalities of the province have 100 megas connectivity in practically the entire territory, facing the demographic challenge,” added the deputy delegate.
Via satellite at affordable price
A representative of the Government reported that this new call for aid to carry the broadband connection through optical fiber, is in addition to the implementation of the UNICO Rural Demand program that provides through Hispasat, satellite connectivity to despoboadas areas of Lugo. This plan offers the possibility of hiring a connection of at least 100 Mbps of download at a price of 35 euros per month for users, without additional costs and an aid of up to 600 euros for the cost of the installation, with a coverage of 100% of the population in those areas where there is no access to fixed networks of at least 50 Mpbs.
The platform through which contracting can be done is https://conectate35.es/. This program, Rodríguez explained, is a transitional solution offered by the Government while the fiber optic extension projects that are currently being implemented are not concluded.