BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

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BoR (11) 06b
Draft regulation on infrastructures in new road and railways: Works on new railways and
road infrastructures have a high cost on their own, so it is possible to build in parallel, at a
marginal cost, telecommunication infrastructures supporting the deployment of new
broadband networks. Furthermore, adequate spaces will be reserved along these
infrastructures to facilitate the installation of mobile base stations, so to ensure adequate
coverage of mobile communications.
The draft Decree will guarantee that all new project roads or railways built by the National
Government will include adequate ducts for the deployment of broadband networks as well
as specific facilities (space and energy) for the installation of mobile base stations.
A standard capacity dimensioning for the facilities will be defined according to the different
typologies of projects, however the operators will be allowed to consult each individual
project before its formal adoption, so they can express its views on the capacity of specific
facilities considered in the project compared to their needs.
Public Aid to support NGA and Broadband Deployments: In 2005 Spain adopted the Plan
Avanza as the umbrella strategy for the advancement of the Information Society (IS). Its
first Action Plan identified a number of objectives reflecting both the technological and
socio-economic dimensions necessary for consolidating the knowledge economy in Spain,
as well as the need to converge with other EU member countries in key IS dimensions.
One of them was to close the Digital Divide to improve quality of life for citizens by
ensuring equitable and universal access to ICT infrastructures (in particular, mobile
networks, broadband Internet and digital terrestrial television), as well as to increase takeup
of digital public services.
This objective was in the focus of the PEBA project (National Program for Broadband
Deployment in Rural and Isolated Areas) implemented between 2005 and 2008, aiming to
expand the availability of broadband services. With a total budget of 90 M€, the main
outcome was reaching 99% of population with broadband coverage (compared to 82% in
2005), meaning that over 8 million people gained broadband coverage under the
programme.
Taking these results as a starting point, a new framework called “Plan Avanza 2 - 2011-
2015 Strategy” has identified 10 new objectives, one of them being the spreading of
telecommunication networks and increasing their capacity.
As a key action to reach this objective, on July 30th a State Aid programme was adopted
providing financial support (in form of soft credits, up to a total amount of 200M€) to
operators for the extension of the present coverage of basic broadband networks and the
deployment of high speed broadband networks (over 50Mb/s) in areas presently lacking
these infrastructures and where no commercial deployments are envisaged in the coming
three years.
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