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Those professionals or businesses that have a speed of less than 30 megabytes will be able to benefit from grants of up to 20,000 euros to equip themselves with this service.

The problems in accessing to the ultrafast broadband for tourist establishments and businesses and self-employed people who work in rural areas with connection difficulties may have a solution. The Xunta has just opened through the Agency for Technological Modernisation of Galicia (Amtega) a call for aid to cover the costs necessary to provide this basic service.

The call is aimed at those businesses and professionals who cannot contract Internet access at a speed of more than 30 megabits per second under market conditions, nor are they included in other current plans for the deployment of ultrafast broadband networks.

The objective is to provide beneficiaries with connections of at least 100 megabits per second, both upload and download, as well as to guarantee quality standards that allow voice and video communications in real time, and to ensure that 95 % of the incidents that may occur and cause the service to be cut off are resolved in less than 24 hours.

This call is endowed with almost 880,000 euros and the selected projects will be subsidised at 100% up to a maximum of 20,000 euros and provided that their cost is at least 2,000 euros.

The deadline for submitting bids opened on Thursday 24 March and ends on 9 May. The bases and forms are already available at the Xunta’s website: https://sede.xunta.gal/detalle-procedemento?codtram=PR604A&ano=2022&numpub=1&lang=gl