The Xunta will allocate 600,000 euros to aid to subsidize up to 100% of the costs of the tasks for the provision of ultra-fast broadband, with a maximum of 20.000 euros per beneficiary within the second call of the lines of aid for the provision of ultra-fast broadband framed in the Broadband Plan of the Xunta<\/a>, which complements the action launched in 2016 to provide Internet connection of up to 350Mbps to 81 industrial parks, promoted by the Agency for Technological Modernization of Galicia (Amtega)<\/a> to extend ultra-fast broadband networks in the Community.<\/p>\n Under this new call until 31 January next companies and self-employed rural isolated areas may apply for aid for access to ultra-fast broadband. In this new call interested parties may submit applications individually or in groups of companies, with the aim in this second case to facilitate the provision of ultra-fast services to companies and self-employed located in nearby locations.<\/p>\n After a first line of subsidies to companies and self-employed with 500,000 euros in aid in 2017, the Amtega allocated to this second call another 600,000 euros. The aid will subsidize up to 100% of the costs of the tasks necessary to provide ultra-fast broadband to the company, up to a maximum of \u20ac 20,000 per project. However, the projects must have a minimum cost of \u20ac2,000.\u00a0These grants are co-financed 75% by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) under the Galicia Rural Development Plan 2014-2020 (RDP).<\/p>\n Deadlines and characteristics of the call<\/strong><\/p>\n The main requirements and duties to be fulfilled by applicants will be to not currently have the possibility of access to ultra-fast networks of at least 30 megabytes and to maintain the high in the service initially contracted for at least 1 year. For each application, the improvement of the ultra-fast broadband service included in the proposal, the expected investment effort and the applications received from small businesses will also be assessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Until 31 January 2019, companies and self-employed persons who do not have Internet access of at least 30 Mbps may apply. The Xunta will allocate 600,000 euros to aid to subsidize up to 100% of the costs of the tasks for the provision of ultra-fast broadband, with a maximum of 20.000 euros per beneficiary within … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.clusterturismogalicia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}