2nd call of the UNICO-Broadband Program
The Government allocates more than 3 million euros
to the Canary Islands to bring ultra connectivity
quickly to more than 13,000 homes and businesses
• The second call for the UNICO-Broadband Program will take
ultra-fast connectivity to 728,534 homes and businesses around the world
territory and will have a global investment of 244.6 million
euros to finance 50 projects.
• The program will allow mobilizing public-private investment of
388.2 million euros to execute the committed projects
in the call, contributing to closing the connectivity gap.
• This broadband deployment, financed with funds from the Plan
Recovery, focuses on isolated and dispersed territories (areas
white and gray) and is aligned with the Digital Spain 2026 agenda,
that pursues ultra-fast connectivity for the entire population in
2025.
• Spain is the European leader in connectivity, with broadband coverage
broadband at 30 Mbps in 96% of the territory - 91% in rural areas -
and 88.3% at a speed of 100 Mbps.
October 11, 2022 – The Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Economics and Digital Transformation, has published the proposed resolution
provisional of the second call of the UNICO-Banda Ancha Program,
which will allow the extension of very high capacity connections (at least
100 Mbps) to 13,073 new homes and companies in the Canary Islands, with a
investment of 3.77 million euros.
In total, this second call of the UNICO-Banda Ancha Program will take
ultra-fast connectivity to 728,534 new homes and businesses around the world
territory and will have a global investment of 244.6 million euros (95%
than budgeted) to finance 50 projects of the 159 evaluated, giving
Thus continuity to the 2021 call, endowed with 250 million euros.
With this new line of aid, financed with Next Generation funds
EU within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan,
will mobilize a public-private investment of 388.2 million euros, which will be
add to the 1,120 million mobilized since 2018. These investments have
allowed to bring ultra-fast broadband connections to more than four
million homes and businesses until 2021.
The list of approved projects can be consulted here. Most of
These projects will be developed in 'white zones', those that do not have
coverage of speed networks of at least 30 Mbps, nor plans for their
endowment in the next three years. In the case of the Canary Islands, 11,737 of the
Beneficiary homes and businesses are located in white areas.
The rest of the actions will take place in 'gray zones', those that only
have broadband coverage or provisions for its provision in the
period of 3 years by a single operator, which does not allow exceeding 100
Mbps.
UNICO-Broadband Program
Under the umbrella of the Infrastructure Universalization program
Digital for Cohesion (UNICO), the main
investments of the Recovery Plan for the digital transformation of the country in
the field of digital connectivity. Specifically, UNICO-Banda Ancha addresses
to achieve a coverage rate of very high capacities of 100% of the
population in 2025.
Once the beneficiary projects of the UNICO-Banda program are executed
Broadcast already launched, the coverage rate will reach 95% online
with universal connectivity set for 2025.
The Recovery Plan has foreseen an investment of 2,000 million euros
until 2023 to extend and improve digital infrastructures, strengthen
territorial cohesion and facing the demographic challenge. The objective, too
included in the Spain Digital 2025 agenda, is that 100% of the population
Spain has broadband coverage in 2025.
