Orange expands its investments to deploy fiber and 4G in Andalucia

Public-private collaboration is essential to carry out the technological modernization projects necessary to face the challenges of the new digital economy.And, as part of this good relationship that must unite companies and the administration to carry out the benefits of the new technologies to citizens, the general secretary and the Board of Directors of Orange Espana, Carmen Recio, and the director of Institutional Relations of the operator, Luz Usamentiaga, have been in these days in Andalusia to participate to the authorities of the Board of its company's plans for the expansion of telecommunications networks and the promotion of the new digital society in the Community.

As we read in Cinco Dias, Orange's directors have informed Jose Sanchez Maldonado, Minister of Employment, Business and Commerce of the Junta de Andalucia, and Javier Castro Baco, Secretary General of Innovation, Industry and Energy, of the plans of its company to invest an additional 228.5 million between this year and the next two to get 4G technology to 95% of Andalusians and provide the advantages of fiber optic to 1.8 million Community homes and businesses.

These investments will be added to those already made by Orange in the deployment of new generation networks in Andalusia in the last three years, and that the operator will now reinforce to expand the most advanced services to more citizens and Andalusian companies of connectivity fixed and mobile connectivity, with all the advantages in terms of social and economic development that these entail.

Specifically, Orange has already allocated 235 million euros between 2012 and 2015 to the deployment of fourth generation mobile infrastructure in Andalusia, thanks to which close to 90% of its citizens can already exceed 100Mb/s in mobile data transfer .The company will continue with this project in the coming years, with an additional investment of 72.5 million, to fulfill its commitment to deliver 4G connectivity to 95% of the population in 2017 .

Orange also started in 2013 the development of a fiber optic network to the home in Andalucia, in which, until the end of last year, it had invested about 160 million euros, in line with the acceleration of its deployment to national level, which has allowed Orange to advance its goal of covering a total of 14 million homes throughout Spain with its fiber network, the company is also promoting this project in Andalucia, to provide all the advantages of fiber to 1.8 million homes and businesses.To this end, Orange will increase its investments in fiber optic by 156 million euros more between this year and 2018 .

ORANGE AND BE DIGITAL

Beyond the infrastructures, the Secretary General of Orange Spain spoke with the Councilor Sanchez Maldonado the importance of the impulse of shared innovation, digital entrepreneurship and education in new technologies