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The importance of technological sovereignty for Europe became clear during the COVID-19 pandemic, when significant supply chain problems made it difficult to obtain microelectronic components from Asia. The PERTE Chip project is one of the Spanish government’s Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTEs) and is aimed at driving development of the semiconductor industry in Spain. It is now benefiting from an investment of €12 billion for the 2021-2023 period, and it includes participation by Spanish and foreign companies in collaboration with universities and research institutes.

One of the goals of the PERTE Chip program is to expand research and development efforts related to semiconductors by creating an innovation and startup ecosystem in this area, training specialized talent, and attracting foreign investment. There are also plans for building a semiconductor production facility in Spain, and although this is no easy task, it will allow companies to produce next-generation chips and electronic components there.

In relation to this subject, two companies from the Televes Corporation have spent years establishing their leading-edge positions. Since 2010, we have been working on the designs and backend processes required for developing semiconductor circuits, and in 2020, we created Maxwell Applied Tech, a company specialized in designing customized microchips for radio frequency applications, using gallium arsenide and gallium nitride as a substitute for the traditional silicon. In addition, at its facilities and Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Televes has already developed the assembly process for those monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) components.

Jaime Martorell, a special delegate for the Microelectronics and Semiconductors PERTE, recently made a visit to the Televes Corporation to learn more about its lines of activity involving microelectronics and semiconductors. He gave a positive assessment of the activities we have established there for designing and assembling semiconductors, including our customized solutions that can offer significant competitive advantages. The plan developed by Televes will ensure that our facilities, machinery, and manufacturing processes remain up-to-date and can always comply with the market's existing demands, while also allowing us to develop new technological and industrial capabilities.

Participation in the PERTE Chip program will also make it possible for Maxwell Applied Tech and Televes to attract and retain the industry’s best talent, while contributing to the country’s overall development and enhancement plan. When designing solutions and assembly processes, additional challenges are presented by the race for miniaturization and the need for integration and use of increasingly high-frequency bands. Televes Corporation is ready to take on these challenges and contribute to advancement of the semiconductor industry in Spain and Europe.

Gamelsa, which is the Televes Corporation company specialized in design and fabrication of metal structures, has invested 40% of its annual revenue for 2022 in metal cutting and folding machinery to increase the production capacity and efficiency of its processes for fabricating metal structures. This will also ensure that the company can meet the quality standards imposed by its customers in highly professional industries such as railroads, shipbuilding, automotive, industrial production, renewable energies, and urban furniture.

This is why Gamelsa has decided to take a significant step forward at the strategic level, to focus on its innovative and highly specialized positioning and remain on the technological leading edge. In addition to investing in advanced technology, the company has expanded its highly qualified technical sales team, which works together with the engineering department to optimize customer designs and adapt them to its production processes in the most efficient way possible.

With this new industrial investment, Gamelsa is entering into a new business era, sharpening its strategic focus and doubling down on its commitment to quality, efficiency, and customer service in highly specialized industries. All of this is making the company stronger and allowing it to emerge as a technological leader for manufacturing metal structures, offering innovative solutions characterized by maximum quality and reliability.

The organization known as the Wider Spectrum Group has submitted a request to the European Commission, the European Council, and European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), asking them to maintain the current assignment of the UHF band by supporting "No Change" at WRC-23. The current assignment of frequencies is essential for European content creation and distribution through radio broadcasting and PMSE, and making changes would cause immediate harm as well as long-term implications for investment and innovation in the industry, a negative impact on universal access to terrestrial TV and broadcasting of live events such as concerts, and obvious implications for the associated jobs.

While acknowledging the value of the opinion expressed by the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), in order to reach a compromise with the minority countries from Region 1 that are insisting upon a regulatory change, the Wider Spectrum Group is asking the European Commission to submit a proposal to the Council opposing co-primary assignment and supporting "No Change" for UHF band assignment at WRC-23.

The organization has also requested neutral wording for agenda items at WRC-31 that affect the European 470-694 MHz cultural band, with that wording modified to include the possibility of reviewing the spectrum’s use and service needs existing for the 470-960 MHz frequency band in Region 1, and the possibility for regulatory actions regarding the 470-694 MHz frequency band based on that review.

The Wider Spectrum Group is therefore repeating its efforts to obtain a firm position from the EU against co-primary assignment to mobile services, and in favor of "No Change" in assignment of the UHF band at WRC-23. This is based on the critical importance of that assignment for European content and for freedom of expression and pluralism through regulated communication media.

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