The protagonism of Catalonia and Barcelona in the broadband development is high. We analyse in collaboration with Héctor Gasulla, Andy
Causse and Adrià Laborda the broadband reality in Catalonia, focusing on its
capital, which has an interesting history behind it. The importance of
communication in Barcelona has been so great throughout its history.
It is well
known that telecommunication is a powerful weapon to control the public opinion
from the population and manipulate information such as in the Civil War. One of
the best examples were the 18th July 1936 and the May Days of 1937. Although
Internet didn’t arrive until the late 1990’s, communications were so important
in this period of Spain’s History. We are talking about radio, telephonic lines
and telegraphs were so important these days and were used for informing the
population, but also to point which are the real enemies.
