MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Confederal Parliamentary Group United We Can-En Comú Podem-Galicia in Common has presented in Congress a non-law proposal that seeks to improve mobile connectivity and, among other things, asks to guarantee at least 30 megabytes of coverage in all the municipalities of Spain .
Specifically, the non-law proposal, which will be debated in the Territorial Policy Commission, urges the Government to “facilitate and promote” territorial cohesion through the extension of mobile phone and internet coverage to all populated areas of the State and guarantee the service in one hundred percent of the urban areas.
United We Can allege that telephone coverage and Internet connection at an appropriate speed are “key axes” for access to communication and information, in addition to public services such as education, health, electronic administration and other services “essential” such as distance shopping or access to leisure. The Parliamentary Group also alludes to the fact that telephony and internet connection is of “extraordinary importance” in emergency situations.
However, it regrets that its territorial extension “has been revealing for decades the existence of large access gaps depending on the location of the users in the territory, fundamentally between large cities and municipalities and small towns.” The deficiencies are observed above all in rural, mountain and border areas.
According to data from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, at least 40 population centers do not have any type of telephone connection and in another 88 centers access is practically zero. They are, according to United We Can, “condemned” by the lack of regulations and incentives towards telephone operators.
In this sense, he has defended that towns like these need to face the problems of depopulation and the demographic challenge by “fixing” the population, which means offering “dignified and adequate” communication solutions.
Likewise, the non-law proposal urges the promotion of mechanisms for the promotion of agreements for the shared use of the infrastructure and the network between mobile operators, with the aim of guaranteeing that all companies can provide broadband internet and voice service. in all the population centers of Spain “within a determined term”.
The Confederal Parliamentary Group United We Can-En Comú Podem-Galicia in Common points out that “an added and even more widespread problem” in rural Spain is the presence of a single operator out of the four that have their own infrastructure in Spain, which does not In numerous cases, they have agreements to transfer the network to the absent operators.
The absence of network transfer agreements limits the ability of residents of these areas to choose a company and leaves all those visitors, workers or tourists who use the services of operators without their own network or transfer agreements in those territories without connection, Explain. In Spain there are no regulatory mechanisms that make these aspects mandatory, although other countries, such as the United Kingdom, require operators to transfer infrastructures.
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