Benavente and coverage problems in the center of the municipality: cacerolate daily to claim solutions

The clock marks 11:30 tomorrow and the noise takes over the central streets of Benavente (Zamora). Sounds of pans, whistles, a strident scandal for three minutes uninterrupted. The reason: the constant coverage problems in the center of the Zamorana town.

Merchants and workers in the business sector will continue to star in this protest for the bad mobile telephony coverage that affects the center of the town. In the words of José Manuel Ramos, president of CEOE-Cepyme de Benavente, an organization that supports the action, “in the 21st century this situation is unfeasible.”

The situation forces merchants to have to go out at the gates of their businesses to take a signal or to collect with the payment terminals with credit and debit cards or the mobile phones themselves. Nor can they receive calls or communicate with their customers.

Some merchants point out that this deficiency is directly affecting them, preventing customers from paying with the mobile or card and leaving without completing the purchase. It also affects the neighbors themselves, who add daily to the protest to make the “maximum possible noise.”

Ramos has explained that they have received “company proposals” to be able He is impacting his work activity.

From the City of Benavente have reported that the installation is scheduled during the week of a new telephone antenna that allows the problem to be solved. Similarly, the mayor of the municipality, Beatriz Asensio, has committed to mediating before the National Telecommunications Agency so that the problem of solutions.

For its part, the government subdelegate in Zamora, Ángel Blanco, explained that his role is to intermediate in this problem, but have already requested explanations to the telephone operator. “We will work to try to solve the problem among all as soon as possible,” Blanco said in recent days.

For the subdelegate of the Government, the most important thing is to “unlock” the situation as soon as possible and that there is “a dignified mobile coverage in the center of Benavente that allows normalizing the commercial activity and communication of the residents of Benavente.”