‘The Classic TV takes a backseat plano’ – Diario de Mallorca

a. m. Palm More and more digital entrepreneurs. Many young people find their way there. Do they have the tools they need? It seems that we are far from powers like the US …

The law facilitates entrepreneurial agility to create this society and it is true that many accelerators are emerging to promote new businesses. In the College [of Telecommunication Engineering] we created a working group to help.

But they lack? Money for business or launch their digital fewer obstacles to get your head?

Both. There are also training gaps: not only have an idea, you have to know then develop as a company. And funding needed aids. Not so much in the first thrust, which is usually easy, with that of friends and family. The hard part is the second round of funding, when you want your project to grow. There’s a big problem in Spain because we are still defining tools for that.

A digital entrepreneur, one of the creators of Mola, one of those companies accelerators, we said at the time that Facebook in Spain would not have gone ahead in the current circumstances, with so much bureaucracy barriers, taxation and funding issues as black Is the picture?

Yes, it is. But I think they are taking the right steps to create the necessary ecosystem for companies like Google or Facebook can also arise in Spain and Europe.

You advisor to the European Commission for the Horizon Project 2020. Where will we be in 2020, which is just around the corner?

Well if we endow infrastructure, we will be with connected homes and 100 megabytes per second with high-speed digital services. And the whole issue of audiovisual content and more developed.

These days people walk worried about retuning freeview channels. Is there a future on TV or the Internet and its many forms of audiovisual consumption will occupy all?

This change had to be done, it is true, because you have to rearrange the television frequencies, because they will use in the future for electronic communications. But the reality is that the scope of content in the future the user will consume whenever and however. From any device, anytime, bringing classic TV deals, as current, will move into the background. The user is making to more selective once. The College of Engineering is helping municipalities with a counseling office for business DTT, and we are also advising communities and municipalities on issues of technology, telecommunication and momentum of the smart cities [ Smart cities].