📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Communications MCom met with experts this Friday 10 to collect technical contributions for a study on rural connectivity which addresses Internet demand network infrastructure coverage and technological alternatives for connectivity in rural areas. The Federal Governments objective is for the study to subsidize government actions to improve Internet access in the countryside especially in serving people who live in small towns far from urban centers.In regions with low population density as is the case in many rural areas with difficult or remote access offering good connectivity is still an exception and we want to change this situation. At the same time we want to guarantee progress so that agribusiness can also be benefited by advances in technology said the Secretary of Telecommunications Maximiliano Martinho.The study is still being prepared and some preliminary findings were presented during the meeting. It was divided into four phases characterization of the different solutions need for infrastructure support characterization of the type of demand according to each territory and analysis of local infrastructure. The work has been carried out with the support of the Luiz de Queiroz School of Agriculture USP the National Telecommunications Institute INATEL the Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications CPQD and the Center for Management and Strategic Studies CGEE .
