• There is a willingness to see the Andorran citizen being well informed and well connected, that is to say adjusted to the real world and not isolated.
• The activity generated in this sector can help with the overall improvement and general development of the country (infrastructures and telecommunications services).
• If economic support is a strategic element, investment must come before demand.
• The telecommunications sector has three dimensions: it has a socio-political element, an economic development element and a service element.

Technological model
The technological model should not be the result of a political decision, but an interrelation between technological progress and market forces. Of course, in order to guide and encourage the market, some general medium-term goals must be established. The citizen must be made aware of public and private initiatives in the sector.

Economic model
The present economic model in the local environment is for liberalization of the telecommunications sector. This model offers two alternatives:
 

• Liberalization of services and opening up of the sector to competition, maintaining a single infrastructure which could have a public or private operator, but always with the philosophy of a public service.
• Total liberalization of services and the infrastructure.

There is an ample consensus in favour of the former, but it is accepted that a much more detailed study of the subject must be made.

Juridical model
Andorra has to regulate the sector by developing a law controlling telecommunications
 
 

1. Technological and economic models for infrastructures

Referring to the economic model, there is currently a certain coincidence in the view that for a country like Andorra, with its particular characteristics, in the medium to long term cable is the answer. Cable is the only option that allows for high-velocity connectivity in both directions and it is the most ecologically acceptable solution, although it is expensive to install.

Andorra is small enough to be capable of avoiding intermediate capital expenditure that later proves useless. If an adequate overall plan existed, it would help to make private investment more adequate and less risky.

It would seem convenient, therefore, to engage in some technological planning for the future. This would require a dedicated study on the technological model for infrastructures.

The study must be made in conjunction with a more detailed analysis of the economic model.
 

1.	Define the technological and economic models for the telematic infrastructures

A study must be made which analyses the technological and economic models of the infrastructure in Andorra, that allows the government to give strategic guidance to the sector.
 
 

2. Interconnected community

 
Given the complexity of all the elements that have a bearing on the technological deployment of the information society, it is very useful to have the possibility of experimenting with small groups in order to see the advantages or disadvantages of the different possible solutions.

This type of experiment is taking place in numerous locations around the world and, more especially, neighboring countries have experience of research in this field. In France, in the Picardy region, and in Spain, in the city of Villena, they are currently studying – from different angles – experiences of the impact of the information society.
 

1.	Promote an experimental project on the interconnected community

 
The project consists of identifying a population center or group in Andorra that could be interested in experimenting, at an intensive level, with the possibilities offered by the information society. This group would have some very advanced equipment and be able to make use of some highly developed infrastructures and services.

The objective is, apart from the obvious benefits of training and motivation for this particular group, to use the experience for evaluation purposes and to be able to draw conclusions that would be applicable to the whole country.