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Press room Torrespa a celebrates its 25th birthday

Madrid, October 09th, 2007 El Pirul ( the Lollipop ) is 25 years old. Torrespa a, the first dedicated telecommunications tower build in Spain and the nodal centre of abertis telecom network, entered service in 1982 to meet the needs of the upcoming football World Cup, held in Spain that year. It was created as the origin of a new television distribution network and as broadcast centre in Madrid, to cover the shadow areas that had existed until then.

Over its first 25 years, ownership and management of Torrespa a has been in the hands of three organisations. Its design, construction and operation fell to RTVE (Spain s state broadcaster) until 1989. With the creation of Retevisi n, the technical television network consisting of around one thousand centres across Spain, including el Pirul , as well as transport and broadcasting services, it spent 14 years being managed by this operator until, at the end of 2003, it became part of abertis telecom, whose network currently consist of more than 3,000 centre throughout Spain.

Until the end of the eighties, Torrespa a broadcast two television and four radio stations, all of them from RTVE. Today, as the nodal centre of the abertis telecom network, it provides a service to Spain s main public and private broadcasters. Torrespa a broadcasts to the Madrid metropolitan and neighbouring areas, providing coverage for more than five million people with 10 analogue TV stations, 24 TDT stations and 14 FM and 18 DAB radio stations. Additionally, its platforms bring together more than 200 antennae which provide support for a multitude of telecommunications services: mobile telephones, emergency services and communications for closed user groups, amongst others.

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