The Government’s deputy delegate in A Coruña, María Rivas, highlighted today in Muxía the new impulse of the Government to complete the ultra-fast broadband connection in the province of A Coruña with 4,635 million euros.
Rivas recalled that the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has launched the third call for the UNICO Broadband program that will bring fiber optics to 2,206 families and companies in remote and isolated areas of the province of A Coruña.
Among the three calls for this plan, the Government of Pedro Sánchez invests 21.4 million in the province of A Coruña, extending the fiber to 54,685 homes, to end the digital divide and guarantee 100% high-speed Internet access coverage to all Coruñeses and Coruñesas.
The subdelegate in the province went to Muxía on Tuesday to hold a meeting with the mayor, Iago Toba, in which, among other issues, they addressed the progress 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 407 homes and small and medium enterprises located in 97 points of the city where to date they do not have this technology.
The deputy delegate said that “in the world in which we live we cannot allow a digital divide to continue to exist that leaves out the population that lives outside the city. It is essential to provide it with the necessary services. We want to advance against depopulation.”
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.
In the case of A Coruña, 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 their endowment in the next three years. With this plan, both Muxía and the other 92 municipalities of the province, obtain a connectivity of 100 megas in practically the whole territory and thus face the demographic challenge.
The third call for applications for the UNICO-Broadband programme remains open until 15 September. Until that date, telecommunications companies will be able to submit their proposals. The government subsidizes 80% of the cost of projects that are an example of public-private collaboration, since companies bring the remaining to the full cost of these actions. Projects must be completed by 31 December 2025.
Local Security Board
The visit to Muxía also served to coordinate security in the upcoming Fiestas de la Virgen de la Barca, which are held between September 7 and 11. In this sense, Rivas stressed the “total willingness” to collaborate with the City Council from the Subdelegation and from the State Security Forces and Corps to contribute so that these festivities can be celebrated safely and calmly “so that the thousands of people who come here year after year can enjoy these festivities with intensity”.
The festivities of Muxía will also have a violet point in which information will be received against any type of male violence and which can be used to request help if necessary.