Abel Losada highlights the great advance of the deployment of optical fiber in the Val Miñor

The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada, highlighted the unstoppable progress in the deployment of optical fiber in the Val Miñor, region that set as an example of the effort of the Government of Spain to bring digital connectivity with minimum symmetric speeds of 100 “megas” to the “last corner of the last municipality of a province with a population density as high and as dispersed as ours”.
The deputy delegate traveled today to Nigrán where he supervised, along with the mayor, Juan González, the councilor for Urbanism, Diego G. Moreira, and the delegate of Red Abierta, Óscar Barreiro, the fiber deployment works that are carried out in this municipality. Losada explained that second the last report of the Ministry for Digital Transformation (Mitradi) Nigrán, Gondomar, Mos and Baiona are municipalities in which there are very few permits to be granted to undertake the necessary interventions in the extension of the fiber in this final stretch of the Government's Single Plan - Broadband, financed with European funds of the Recovery Plan.
Abel Losada stressed the prominent role that the province of Pontevedra maintains in the execution of high-speed internet connectivity plans, where he is ranked ninth in the total of 52 provinces in terms of speed in the processing of permits for his deployment.
Red Abierta is the firm responsible for carrying out the fiber laying work of the annuality of 2024 and maintains in the planning phase the corresponding ones until 2025, year in which the coverage will be reached throughout the province. The company, with an award of 7,685,861 euros in this state contract, has planned a total investment in its network that will reach 9,675,858 euros, since it is a neutral operator that rents its infrastructure to operators providing final services.
In total, 3.5 million meters of optical fiber are expected to be installed in the province of Pontevedra to carry the service to all the cores by December 2025, “which means a great engineering effort to fit all that primary and secondary cabling and the connection nodes.”
Currently, the areas where cable is being most advanced are the Val Miñor (especially in Nigrán), the Baixo Miño, Arousa, the north of the Deza (Lalín, Agolada and Rodeiro) and the Louriña area (O Porriño, Mos and Salceda de Caselas), as well as the Paradanta (Arbo and As Neves).
Abel Losada indicated that in this phase, the UN-Banda plan will send the optical fiber to the other 18,104 family units and companies by the end of 2025 “thus improving our competitiveness and making it possible for everyone to develop a work and life project wherever they decide to reside”. “There is no better investment to equate territories than to equate services,” he insisted.