Orange and Vodafone share 117 million Adif mega contracts for 5G on AVE lines

Special, Orange Awarded – in collaboration with Ericsson 1st and 2nd lots of 71.6 million Euros (86.4 million Euros with 21% VAT added)during vodafone made with the third is 25.5m euros, which increases to 30.9m euros when VAT is added.

Orange won lot 1 with a bid of €28.9 million (34.7 million including VAT) involving brokers. Plasencia-Cáceres-Badajoz and one Granada-Antequera. In addition, it was built with the 2nd parcel, which has the highest number among the 3 and covers the corridor passing between them. Olmedo and OurenseWith a bid of 42.7 million Euros (including VAT of 51.7 million).

“This award once again reinforces our leading position in 5G infrastructures, This is where the maximum technical scores demonstrate not only its quality and robustness, but also allow us to lead the way in the development of business 5G in Spain,” said Joaquín Colino, B2B general manager of Orange.

Meanwhile, Vodafone and the Spanish Association of Industrial Companies (SEMI) will bring 5G networking to high-speed parts of the world. Albacete-Alicante And Barcelona-Figueres After giving the 3rd lot for 25.5 million Euro (30.9 million including VAT).

The duration of this lot is 5 years and includes the design, construction, installation and maintenance of 700 megahertz (MHz) and 800 MHz infrastructures.

While the deployment of the network should be completed before December 2025, its maintenance will last until the end of 2028.. As detailed by Vodafone, SEMI will be responsible for the engineering and construction of the civil works, while Vodafone will build the 5G network using Ericsson technology.

Vodafone Spain’s Network Director Julia Velasco emphasized that this technology will “facilitate more efficient management of freight and passenger traffic, as well as the provision of advanced logistics services, and support the ecological transition towards more sustainable transport”.

Telephone exclusion

At the beginning of last March, Excludes temporary association of companies (UTE) consisting of Adif Alta Velocidad, Telefónica Spain and Telefónica Móviles Spain this tender for including economic offers It is at a presentation stage where only the technical aspects of the projects are valued, according to what the government’s public procurement portal states.

Such inclusion of economic aspects clearly contradicts article 12 of the specification, which warns that it will be excluded in case of such violation.

In this sense, Telefónica applied for 2nd and 3rd parties (one eventually awarded to Orange and the other to Vodafone) with donations of 51.7 and 32.9 million euros. To install the 5G network on the high-speed lines of Olmedo-Ourense and Albacete-Alicante, as well as Barcelona-Figueres.

smart management

This new infrastructure deployment for the 5G network on high-speed lines is carried out at ten strategic logistics terminals with an investment of 20.5 million euros to promote digitalization, Adif said. , however, automation of processes and lowering the costs of transporting goods by rail.

5G infrastructure in these facilities It will allow the provision of advanced logistics services and facilitate the ‘intelligent’ management of goods traffic., facilitating transitions and promoting intermodality. It will likewise encourage efficient interconnection of the main transport nodes of the rail system.”

These new infrastructures for the 5G network will join the telecommunications assets portfolio of Adif and Adif AV, which currently consists of more than 24,000 kilometers of fiber optic networks, 1,900 technical buildings and more than 700 mobile sites.