Altice Portugal wants to make 5G reach 75% of the Azorean population by the end of 2022 – Telecomunicações
The information was forwarded to Lusa by the company, on the day the Executive Chairman of Altice Portugal, Ana Figueiredovisited the island of São Miguel, to announce a “new wave of investment in networks, technology and innovation and support initiatives in the areas of sustainability and social responsibility”namely in the municipalities of Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada and Lagoa.
The company’s perspective is to invest eight million euros in the Azores, this year and in 2023, for “expansion of optical fiber and modernization of the entire mobile network of the archipelago”. On the other hand, coverage forecast for the next two years, 14 new stations of the mobile network to reinforce on the islands of Santa Maria, São Jorge, Faial, Terceira, Pico and São Miguel”.
“The Commitment to be adopted between the Company and the Regional Government at the top of the infrastructures that have the placement of investment coming in Altice”, indicates the initiative.
As for the investments presented today, Ri “a new mobile site in the freais da Ajudabeira and the final of the Grande da Rede de Fenais until 2022”.
According to the company, Ponta Delgada, the largest municipality in the Azores, “will now have fiber optic coverage of over 95% and new three mobile sites in the parishes of Santo António, Ajuda da Brittany and Candelária”.
Lagoa will be equipped with “a fiber optic coverage of more than 95% by the end of 2022” and will have “three new mobile sites in the parishes of Cabouco, Água de Pau and Lagoa, in order to reinforce voice and mobile data coverage in small and surrounding areas”.
“In addition to telecommunications, networks of responsibilities, Altice Portugal and the establishment of business partnerships, as well as any set of social responsibilities that have been added to this journey, are also central to the academy for its intervention”, company .
In this context, a partnership was made between Altice Labs and the University of the Azores the establishment of “formation of scientific-technological collaboration projects, cooperation planning at the collaborative level, training in the scope of project formation and exchange of specialists”.
Altice Empresas and NOGON – Science and Technology Park of São Miguel. The Lar da Mãe de Deus and the Social and Parish Center of Fajã de Baixo were provided with technological equipment.
“Conscious that everyone should practice sports, practice sports and improve the life habits of business people, Altice Portugal is going to make a surfboard adapted to Santa Casa da Ribeira Grande and two surfboards surfboards adapted to Santa Casa da Ribeira Grande and surfboards from the MEO Surf League to Clube Naval de Rabo de Peixe”, the company also mentions.
The visit of the executive chairman of Altice Portugal to São Miguel took place within the scope of Technology: The Next Generation, carried out by the company and held this morning in Ponta Delgada.