• The advanced state of deployment of fiber in many parts of the country has been decisive for this call to award projects in 38 provinces
• The success of public-private collaboration has placed Spain as the European power with the best connectivity in optical fiber according to the recent OECD report, a key issue for economic development in this new digital era

Madrid, December 3, 2024.- The Government of Spain, through the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, has awarded 24.5 million euros in a new call for the universalization of the deployment of ultra-fast broadband in the homes and companies of the country.

Through the final resolution of the UNICO Broadband Program in its call of 2024 published by the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, the arrival of the fiber will be facilitated to 15,000 homes and companies that still did not have access to ultra-fast broadband.

There will be six operators that will develop the deployment promoted through this call. Precisely, the state of progress of the deployment of fiber has been decisive so that in this call projects are finally awarded in a total of 38 provinces of Spain, leaving aside the remaining provinces, which already have a practically completed technical deployment.

This new award is included in the actions of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan with the funding of the European Next Generation EU funds. The sum of these 24.5 million to what the Government previously invested since 2018 already reaches 1,060 million euros of public investment in digital vertebration Spain, through which the largest fixed connectivity network in Europe is already catalogued according to the latest OECD report.

The Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, Antonio Hernando, said that “this new call comes to culminate a collective success achieved with public-private collaboration. Spain is the European country with the best connectivity in optical fiber and the third among the OECD countries. We have more than 95% of households connected to ultra-fast broadband and that is allowing Spain to be consolidating itself as a rising pole in the global technological arena.”

Hernando stressed that “a country with such an extension, with such orographic particularity and with thousands of scattered populations manages to universalize access to fixed connectivity is the greatest guarantee of opportunities in the digital age. In addition, for remote locations we have the satellite service Conectate35.es providing fixed access anywhere in the country. In short, the leadership of this government is marking a before and after in terms of digitization, reindustrialization and ecological transition with renewable energies.”