Rede Aberta, a company specialized in the construction of neutral fiber optic networks, has reached an agreement with the Council of Mazaricos (A Coruña) to connect 549 real estate units with ultrafast Internet connection, which represents more than 28% of the homes registered in the municipality.
The agreement signed with the Mayor of Mazaricos, Juan José Blanco Riveiro, establishes that the Concello will share with Rede Aberta the electrical infrastructures of municipal ownership in order to carry out the deployment of the fiber optic cabling. In this way, it contributes to accelerate the process for the connection of the planned real estate units, reduce unnecessary and redundant works and minimize the environmental impact. Rede Aberta will start in the coming weeks the deployment plan that foresees the installation of the 549 real estate units before the end of 2023, which will facilitate the internet connection to the residents of rural parishes. According to data from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation (July 2021), only 38% of the homes in Mazaricos had a fiber optic connection with a symmetrical speed higher than 100 Mbps. With the deployment planned by Rede Aberta (549 uu.ii.), more than 66% of the homes will be reached before the end of 2023. Once the fiber optic installation is completed, in order to have internet access, users will have to contract the connection with local telecommunications operators.
Rede Aberta has agreements with the operators 7Play, A Túa Xanela, Aúrea Telecom, Evoa, IT Sarria, Itegal, Juifi, Planeta Voz, Eume Telecom, Grelo, Oteuoperador, Pizpireta Telecom or Toxo Telecom. This action is part of the development forecasts of the UNICO plan of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation for the province of A Coruña.
Rede Aberta, winner of the tender for the province of A Coruña, plans to bring high-capacity fiber optics to 36,556 homes in rural areas.
In the A Costa da Morte area – made up of the regions of Bergantiños, Soneira, Xallas and Fisterra -, in recent months, Rede Aberta has deployed fibre optics in the Bértoa industrial estate (Carballo) and installed more than 24,000 housing units with access to homes in 11 municipalities, such as Malpica (4,028 uu.ii), Laxe (2,000), Ponteceso (2,342), Vimianzo (3,000) and another 6,500 in Cee and Corcubión.
About Rede Aberta
Rede Aberta is a neutral fibre optic operator, with almost three years of activity, and is present in more than 60 rural municipalities in Galicia. With more than 1,300 kilometres of fibre optics deployed to provide neutral network service, it reaches more than 146,000 homes. Rede Aberta is a Galician company that is part of the fibre projects of the CEBF fund, which is in 7 countries in Europe. It was established in 2020 and has 20 direct employees and more than 200 indirect employees who collaborate in deploying fibre in rural municipalities. The company plans to invest 121 million euros until 2025 to reach 400,000 homes in rural areas. CEBF (Connecting Europe Broadband Fund) is a fund with 555 million euros that exclusively promotes digital infrastructure in Europe. It is managed by Cube Infrastructure Managers (“Cube IM”), specialised in infrastructure investments.
About the UNICO Plan
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), are co-financing the deployment of our fiber optic network to the white areas of the following 93 municipalities belonging to the province of A Coruña: Abegondo, Ames, Aranga, Ares, Arteixo, Arzúa, A Baña, Bergondo, Betanzos, Boimorto, Boiro, Boqueixón, Brión, Cabana de Bergatiños, Cabanas, Camariñas, Cambre, A Capela, Carballo, Cariño, Carnota, Carral, Cedeira, Cee, Cerceda, Cerdido, Coirós, Corcubión, Coristanco, A Coruña, Culleredo, Curtis, Dodro, Dumbría, Fene, Ferrol, Fisterra, Frades, Irixoa, A Laracha, Laxe, Lousame, Malpica de Bergatiños, Manón, Mazaricos, Melide, Mesía, Miño, Moeche, Monfero, Mugardos, Muros, Muxía, Narón, Neda, Negreira, Noia, Oleiros, Ordes, Oroso, Ortigueira, Outes, Oza-Cesuras, Paderne, Padrón, O Pino, A Pobra do Caramiñal, Ponteceso, Pontedeume, As Pontes de García Rodríguez, Porto do Son, Rianxo, Ribeira, Rois, Sada, San Sadurniño, Santa Comba, Santiago de Compostela, Santiso, Sobrado, As Somozas, Teo, Toques, Tordoia, Touro, Trazo, Val do Dubra, Valdoviño, Vedra, Vilarmaior, Vilasantar, Vimianzo, Zas The objective of this project is to bring fiber optics to 36,556 Real Estate Units with a census of 1,120,134 people .
Call: Program for the Universalization of Digital Infrastructures for Cohesion – Broadband (Call – ÚNICO-Banda Ancha 2022) Project: APPLICATION A CORUÑA 2022 File number: TSI-061400-2022-157 Status: in progress
