Mobile operators are taking urgent steps to improve the state of communications in the village of Voden and several neighbouring villages. The aim is to provide better mobile network coverage for the population by deploying additional equipment in the area. These measures were discussed today during a meeting convened on the initiative of Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev and Transport and Communications Minister Georgi Gvozdeykov. The use of mobile networks in the area is busier than usual and we will take swift action to ensure that people there will be covered, representatives of Vivacom, A1 and Yettel said.
‘My appeal to you is to monitor the situation with particular attention so that we can assist the people in these severely affected parts of the country’, Minister Georgi Gvozdeykov said. The three mobile operators explained that they are making constant checks of the networks in the fire-affected areas, and this will continue in the coming days.
The situation in Voden shows once again the importance of the project for broadband connectivity in sparsely populated areas, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Transport and Communications under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan, was the general opinion of the participants in the meeting. It envisages 400 000 Bulgarians in hard-to-reach and remote areas of the country to have high-speed internet.