The L'Ametlla Plenary approves granting space to the CTTI for a 25-metre antenna

The Plenary of the City Council of l’Ametlla del Vallès unanimously approved, in an ordinary session on October 26, 2026, the administrative concession for the private use of a municipal space located at Manuel de Falla Street, 7 for the installation of telecommunications infrastructure. The beneficiary is the Telecommunications and Information Technologies Center (CTTI) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, under a direct award regime. The agreement and the specifications are published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona (BOPB) on November 13, 2026 (CVE 202610172550, announcement 4015590, pp. 1-12) and are subject to a 30-day public exhibition period.

The council justifies the operation due to the lack of mobile phone coverage in the northern sector of the municipality, especially in the neighborhoods of Serrat and la Miranda, where signal deficiency hinders calls and data access and, according to the municipal report, even prevents communication with security forces in case of emergency. The file is framed within Article 93.1 and Article 137.4.a) of Law 33/2003, of November 3, on the heritage of public administrations, which allows direct award when the concessionaire is part of the public sector, and Article 45 of Law 11/2022, the general telecommunications law, which excludes bidding when the occupation of public domain serves to install or operate a network.

A 25-meter lattice tower

The technical project, definitively approved by the Local Governing Board on May 13, 2026, provides for:

• A lattice tower model Made V2 with a height of 25 meters.
• A small building divided into several rooms for communications equipment and cabinets and manholes for the base station.
• An outer perimeter fence and the electrical connection.
• The extension of fiber optics from the open network point at Pompeu Fabra Street, 8 to Manuel de Falla Street, 7.

Both projects are signed by the architect Núria Segarra Rius, from AECOM, SL, the company that had also prepared the coverage study that determined this location as having the most favorable radio-electric conditions. The asset subject to the concession has the cadastral reference 7467007DG3176N0001MK, registry estate 4594 of the Property Registry number 2 of Granollers, municipal inventory number B-237 and UTM coordinates X437186.05 – Y4616481.37.

Three years of unsuccessful dealings with operators

The file includes a chronology of failed contacts before arriving at the current solution:

• October 2023: the Mayor’s Office sends letters to various operators offering municipal sites for antenna installation; no response is received.
• First quarter of 2024: meeting with the Localret consortium to obtain legal and technical advice.
• January 2024: new letter to operators regarding a state grant for 5G deployment; no company submits a candidacy.
• June 2024: the file is initiated to contract the drafting of the executive project for a tower at el Serrat.
• November 2025: meeting with the CTTI, which commits to providing fiber optics, energy, and maintenance in exchange for the operation of the tower.
• Subsequently, the CTTI provides information on the 5G Redes Muy Rurales aid program, for which the municipality is a candidate as a white zone and the documentation for which has already been submitted.

The CTTI formalized the request for private occupation of 30 m² on September 30, 2026, accompanied by the utilization report required by article 63 of Decree 336/1988, of October 17, regarding the assets of local entities.

Free concession for 50 years

The specifications set a duration of 50 years from the formalization of the contract, extendable by express addendum. The concession is free: the CTTI pays no fee or tariff nor has to provide a guarantee, and in exchange assumes the investment, conservation, maintenance, and supply. The ceded space is 30 m² within a 453 m² plot of municipal public domain classified as urban land, technical services system.

The tower must serve three declared purposes: provide mobile coverage to the northern sector, allow municipal uses such as that of the Local Police, and guarantee the retransmission of digital television from the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA) and the Emergency and Security Radiocommunications Network of Catalonia (RESCAT). The CTTI may also lease spaces to private operators to ensure mobile telephony signals.

Terms and effects of the agreement

The agreement is published in the BOPB and on the corporation’s notice board for 30 days for allegations and suggestions. If none are presented, the initial approval becomes final without any further procedure, and the concession must be formalized in an administrative document within 15 business days following the notification of the award. The agreement empowers the mayor, Jan Santaló Lloret, to sign the necessary documentation; the publication is dated November 12, 2026.

The decision ends years of deficient coverage in a municipality that had offered its own infrastructure to operators without receiving a response, and transforms a municipal plot in Serrat de l’Ocata into a shared transmission center for emergency services, public television, and mobile telephony. For the residents of Serrat and Miranda, the timeline now depends on the closing of the public exhibition and the execution of the works by the CTTI.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona (BOPB), November 13, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-12 (official reference: CVE 202610172550, announcement 4015590).