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1st April 2006 - The six-month period of the pilot test has finished today. We will proceed to remove both the network's and the users' equipment. A meeting with the users has been planned for this month to evaluate the development of the test and to discuss future prospects.

27th January 2006 - Because of the Centelles PLC project, Centelles Town Council has received the Innova Award for the most innovative project in the field of new technologies in the 2005 Local Communication Awards granted by Barcelona County Council.


Family picture of the winners. Author:  Eva Guillamet

1st December 2005 - Meeting between the users and the project team to inform the users about the progress and the prospects of the pilot test and to get to know their views and problems first-hand. About twenty users have attended the meeting.

16th November 2005



2nd November 2005 - The Centelles Town Council has received an honourable mention in the 2005 National Awards for Radio and Television Broadcasting, Internet and Telecommunications because of the Centelles PLC project. This is the seventh occasion on which the Awards have been granted by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.

1st October 2005 - The implementation of the PLC network has finished today. In this way, the six-month period of the pilot test begins and will last until 1st April 2006. A meeting with the users has been planned for the second half of October to evaluate and monitor the test.

9th September 2005 - Montse Domènech, member of the department of New Technologies of the Barcelona County Council, has visited us.

11th July 2005 - The new network planning has finished. We have given coverage to 51 users. There are still 6 users offline and 5 users had the service disconnected (School, High School and changes of address). Approval tests show that the network is more stable but the transmission volume has dropped considerably. The final approval of the project is planned for the last week of July.

27th June 2005 - We are making several network changes so as to increase the number of connected users. The School and High School equipment is being reused to give coverage to individuals, and new repeaters are being installed.

21th June 2005 - The President of the Barcelona County Council, Mr. Celestino Corbacho, has visited the Centelles PLC facilities.

13th June 2005 - Mr Palacios, general manager of STA (Andorra Telecommunications Services), visits the Centelles PLC facilities.

11th June 2005 - Article about the pilot test in the weekly "Dossier Econòmic de Catalunya", in its issue of 11-17 June (page 32).

7th June 2005 - Purchase of new equipment has been planned so as to increase the number of connected users. Network changes will be made at the end of June.

25th May 2005 – The network has become stable. In this moment there are 42 users connected and 20 users without connection. These cases are being studied so as to reduce the number of users without connection.

13th May 2005 – Engineers are working to stabilize the network to guarantee continuous service. The starting shot for the pilot test has not been given yet.

6th May 2005 - The pilot test facilities have been officially inaugurated with the attendance of Josep Oriol Ferran, Secretary of Telecommunications and Information Society of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.

29th April 2005 – The project webpage is launched: www.centellesplc.org

25th April 2005 – The CMT registers the Centelles Town Council as a Telecommunications Operator.

15th April 2005 – New repeaters have been installed. All installed modems must be connected for the next days so as to finish the installation of the equipment.

6th April 2005 – Internet connection has been established. The pilot test will start at the end of this month.

1st April 2005 – New repeaters have been ordered to give coverage to end users.

30th March 2005 – 30 modems have been installed. We are waiting for Internet connection to be established.

18th March 2005 – The first repeaters and the CT equipment have been installed.

10th March 2005 – Connection has been established between the two CTs (Tussol and Institut) by means of optical fibre as well as PLC through the medium voltage grid.