Pamplona is The First Spanish City Covered With Wimax Wireless

Pamplona next year will be the first 'City Wimax' after Spanish to boost wireless coverage implementation of Wimax, a wireless communication system of mobile broadband-like wireless, with the advantage on this is that its range is greater for allowing you to create large networks. This technology, which themselves have access to both municipal and private users services serving the public interest, is beginning to take in some American cities. In Europe, Amsterdam was the first.

The implementation of this technology, which involves an investment of 986,000 euros, is part of one of the 15 projects presented to the Consistory Pamplona Ministry of Regional Policy of the Government of Spain in the new edition of the State Fund for Employment and Local Sustainability (Plan E) agreed by the team of Local Government and the socialist municipal group to improve or build new infrastructure for the city.

According to the agreement reached today between the two local groups, according to the Royal Decree-Law which regulates the call, by Feb. 3 will be formally presented each of the requests for Pamplona can receive money for investments by the total 17,052,000 euros earmarked for this chapter in 2010.

The same fund will further 4 million, but those for current expenditure and are already integrated in the budget of the Consistory. In accordance with the rules of the call, in this issue of aid may be used not only in investment but also in current expenditure if financing of social activities, especially those of Education, care services and dependence on services social sustainable development, employment and technological development.

The amount corresponding to the city, more than 21 million, was estimated by the ministry, as in 2009, according to the inhabitants of the municipality. The initial budget submitted is 986,000 euros more than the amount offered by the fund, although the figures will be adjusted according quantified in detail and prepare the projects.

This was said today the mayor of Pamplona, Yolanda Barcina, who appeared at a press conference to assess the agreement reached with the PSN in "a year of consensus and agreement" between the two formations that have allowed "stability" to the Consistory "in a important moment for the institutions because of the economic situation. "

Barcina was pleased at the fact that the year end "with another new deal" between regional and social, and said it was "logical" and "satisfaction" to achieve this type of proposal.

For its part, the Socialist spokesman Esporrín Maite, who appeared minutes later in another press conference, expressed his "satisfaction" with the agreement because he said that "all proposals that the PSN for the State Fund had been included or in projects financed by this fund, or budgets. He also said that the PSN will continue its "constructive opposition" over the next year because their priority is "good citizenship".