According to the latest data from the Broadband Coverage Report in Spain in 2023, prepared by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, the digital divide in ultra-fast broadband in rural areas has been reduced by 5 points, standing at 13 percentage points.

Breakdown by Autonomous Community:
The autonomous communities of Andalusia (24.8%), Valencia (14.8%), Castile and León (11.14%), and Catalonia (10.30%) continue to account for more than 60% of new users of the Rural Internet Program (PUR), a situation that was evident from the beginning of the subsidized rural internet program and has remained unchanged since then.
A second group of regions follows, led by Castile-La Mancha (5.4%), and including Asturias (5.10%), the Canary Islands (4.7%), Galicia (4.5%), Extremadura (4.2%), the Balearic Islands (3.6%), Murcia (3.5%), Madrid (3.4%), and Aragon (2.9%). The
autonomous communities of Cantabria (0.5%), the Basque Country (0.4%), La Rioja (0.3%), and Navarre (0.2%) have yet to gain traction and continue, as has been the case from the outset, to account for less than 1% of new sign-ups.

A pioneering program.
The UNICO Rural Demand program is a pioneering initiative in Europe, designed by the Spanish Government and channeled through the State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure. Its objective is to definitively eliminate the digital divide that still separates rural and urban areas.
With programs like the PUR (Rural Demand Program), which offers the possibility of contracting a connection through Hispasat, Eurona is bringing 200 Mbps internet to thousands of homes throughout Spain, thus eliminating the digital divide.
According to Eurona's CEO, Fernando Ojeda, “these figures demonstrate the good work the company is doing in collaboration with SETELECO (State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure) with the shared goal of eliminating the digital divide. However, with the valuable information we have gathered after a year of the PUR, we believe that a greater effort must be made to promote a plan that has not yet taken hold in many areas. Therefore, we reiterate our call for greater collaboration from institutions, organizations, companies, and public administrations.”