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Catalonia wanted to create the mother of networks for its public headquarters with Huawei equipment. He thought better of it

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The Catalan Court of Public Sector Contracts has partially upheld the appeal presented by Telefónica and Cellnex against the award of the XCAT network contract to sirt and Huawei. The project to interconnect the strategic infrastructures of the Catalan territory will not be able to rely on hardware from China. Why? Catalonia has a fiber optic backbone network, a backbone that supports the Catalan administration. Hospitals, educational centers, public data centers… An infrastructure that has been around for years seeking independence with Spain and that, through the XCAT project, it was preparing its biggest technological leap in decades thanks to the local company Sirt Connecta and Huawei’s network technologies. The offer. Providing it with a budget of 127 million, the Generalitat was finalizing a plan to connect more than 5,400 institutional headquarters. All with its own infrastructure so as not to depend on national giants such as Telefónica, Vodafone or MásOrange. Sirt’s offer with Huawei was the best valued by the CTTIthe computer lung that supports digital services in Catalonia, but Telefónica and Cellnex filed an appeal before the Catalan Court. not so fast. Despite offering a cheaper proposal, Telefónica-Cellnex saw the balance tip towards the Sirt-Huawei proposal. They thus presented an appeal in which they challenged the award of the contract, criticized the technical assessment and indicated their doubts about the technical solvency and real capacity of Sirt to execute said contract. The Catalan Court of Public Sector Contracts has partially upheld the appeal presented by Telefónica and Cellnex, thus suspending the award. There is more. The European Commission’s proposal for a new cybersecurity law, presented on January 20, makes the awarding of the contract even more difficult. Europe wants to expressly prohibit (although the law will not come into force for at least a year) the use of Chinese technology in fixed network infrastructure. In other words, Catalonia cannot use Huawei equipment. If the court’s decision is appealed and the Sirt-Huawei solution is implemented, in just a year and a half all Huawei equipment should be replaced with others of Western origin. The silent dismantling. In recent years, the three large Spanish operators have expelled Huawei from their network cores. Telefónica now works with Nokia and Ericsson Orange with Ericsson Vodafone with Nokia The next step is what the Sirt-Telefónica conflict leaves us with: small local operators will also have to banish Chinese equipment from their hardware core to comply with upcoming European regulations. In Xataka | Huawei MatePad 11.5 S 2026, analysis: the secret of its success is visible and it is called PaperMatte

Filmin has released a documentary about the riot police of the process. And now it has threatening graffiti on its headquarters

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The Barcelona headquarters of Filmin It woke up on January 20 with graffiti on its façade: “Collaborators with Spanish repression.” The message, signed by the independence collective Nosaltres Sols!, marks the most critical moment of a boycott campaign that began days before on social networks. The trigger: the programming of the documentary ‘Icarus: the week in flames’, focused on the testimonies of riot police from the National Police who acted in Barcelona during the conflicts of October 2019, after the sentencing against the leaders of the processes. What is it about? ‘Ícarus: the week in flames’, directed by Elena G. Cedillo and Susana Alonso, reconstructs the riots that occurred in Barcelona for seven days in October 2019, after the sentence against the leaders of the processes. The documentary, filmed in 2022 and available on Filmin since January 9, is based on interviews with agents and commanders of the Police Intervention Units who participated in the operations. “We had the feeling that this was a war,” declares one of them. The sequences include material recorded by the riot police themselves and from a helicopter, with scenes of the clashes in El Prat, Urquinaona Square and in front of institutional headquarters. The answer. Jaume Ripoll, editorial director and co-founder of Filmin, has tried to defuse the controversy appealing to the classic principle of “Programming a film is not equivalent to subscribing to its approach.” The platform insists that it does not censor content based on ideological orientation and defends that cinema should serve to “look squarely at what makes us uncomfortable.” However, the virulence of the reaction raises a question that transcends the specific case: can streaming platforms maintain a position of editorial neutrality, or does their catalog inevitably reflect an ideological position? Filmin is the platform with greatest historical commitment with the Catalan language and culture. In June 2017, two years before the events narrated ‘Icarus’the company launched Filmin.catbecoming the first digital platform for series and movies specifically in Catalan, anticipating giants like Netflix or Disney+. According to the last report from the Audiovisual Consell of Catalonia Introduced in December 2025, Filmin includes Catalan (in audio, subtitles or both options) in 2,350 titles in its catalogue, which represents 20.7%. The figure contrasts radically with Prime Video (9.5%), Netflix (3.5%), Max (3.2%) or Disney+ (2.2%). The paradox. The data makes the controversy more striking: Filmin is the platform that has historically supported the Catalan language and culture the most. In June 2017, two years before the riots that ‘Ícaro’ documents, the company launched Filmin.catthe first digital platform dedicated specifically to series and cinema in Catalan, before Netflix or Disney+ did so. Latest report from the Audiovisual Consell of Cataloniafrom December 2025, places Filmin as the platform with the greatest presence of Catalan (whether in audio, subtitles or both) with 2,350 titles, 20.7% of its offer. The figures for Prime Video (9.5%), Netflix (3.5%), Max (3.2%) or Disney+ (2.2%) are much lower. The platform has also produced original fiction in Catalan through Filmin Originals, such as ‘Selftape’, a series by the Vilapuig sisters about abuses in the Catalan audiovisual industry, and has co-produced titles with international coverage such as ‘Molt Lluny’ or ‘Forastera’. This history makes more surprising the painting of “collaborationism with Spanish repression” that it has received, signed by Nosaltres Sols!, a right-wing independence group born from the 2019 mobilizations led by the influencer David Silvestre. Other platforms and ideological controversies. The case of Filmin is not an exception in the sector. The large platforms have experienced comparable situations in recent years: debates about the permanence of certain content in the catalog and whether programming a work implies endorsing it. Netflix went through one of its greatest internal turbulences in 2021 due to the comedy special ‘The Closer’, by Dave Chappelle, which sparked accusations of transphobia. Trans workers from the company called a protest rally calling for the withdrawal of the program. Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, justified keeping it on the platform by arguing that “not all of Netflix’s content will be to everyone’s taste.” Woody Allen, of course. Prime Video faced a conflict of a different nature in 2019, when Woody Allen took the platform to court for breaking a contract that provided for the distribution of four feature films. Amazon argued that the “public perception” of the filmmaker had changed after accusations of sexual abuse against him reappeared, a circumstance that made the agreement unviable from a commercial point of view. The dispute ended with an extrajudicial agreement whose terms were not disclosed, but established jurisprudence: platforms can disassociate themselves from commitments with creators if they consider that their reputation damages the corporate image, without the need for judicial convictions. And ‘Gone with the Wind’. HBO Max adopted a measure in June 2020 that caused international reactions: the Temporary withdrawal of ‘Gone with the Wind’ coinciding with the moment of greatest intensity of the Black Lives Matter mobilizations. The platform explained that the 1939 film reproduced “ethnic and racial prejudices” that could be “hurtful” seen from the present. Weeks later, the film returned to the catalog preceded by an intervention by film historian Jacqueline Stewart, who contextualized its historical relevance while pointing out its racist representations. The formula chosen by WarnerMedia established a middle path: a title can remain available without omitting its conflicting elements, as long as they are presented with the necessary critical framework. Header | Jaume Ripoll In Xataka | Disney+ has discovered that Generation Z does not want to watch its two-hour movies. So he’s going to give them vertical microdramas

Nexperia China has been trying to contact the Dutch headquarters for days. The only response has been absolute silence

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After the escalation of tension, andThe Dutch government suspended the order to control Nexperia and Nexperia China resumed shipments of critical chips. The European automotive industry could breathe and everything was being resolved, everything except the relationship between the two Nexperias. The conflict has left an internal war that does not seem to have an easy or quick solution. what’s happening. They count in South China Morning Post that Wingtech, the company that owns Nexperia in China (we will call it Nexperia China for simplicity), has been trying to contact Nexperia Netherlands for days and has not received any response. Nexperia China called this silence “deeply regrettable and disconcerting.” Take control. Nexperia China’s intentions are not simply to have a chat. a few days ago They published a statement in their WeChat account in which they assured that “control of Nexperia has not returned to its rightful owner” and expressed their intention to use “all legal avenues” to achieve this. It seems that in Holland they do not agree with these statements and have chosen silence in response. Nexperia Netherlands. His latest official statement It is from November 19, the same day that the Dutch government announced the suspension of the control order over the company. In it, they noted that Nexperia China had stopped “operating within the established corporate governance framework and are ignoring legal instructions from Nexperia’s global management” and provided several examples, such as creating unauthorized bank accounts for clients to make payments, sending letters to clients “with false information” and misappropriating corporate seals. Current status. The conflict put the European automotive industry in checkwhich depends on Nexperia chips for electronic modules and control units of many vehicles produced on the old continent. The Dutch government revoked the order and China lifted the veto it imposed in response. Chips are flowing into factoriesbut the conflict has left a deep scar on the company whose solution seems far away. Recently Nexperia China has appointed Sophie Shen Xinjia as president expert in legal advice and law graduate, so everything indicates that there will be a legal battle for control of the company. Image | Nexperia In Xataka | China has so many electric cars running on its streets that it is going to use them to generate energy for homes

We thought the tourist floors were the most profitable. Amancio Ortega has found something better: headquarters and shops

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The rental market He has shot In recent years and with them the profitability that their owners They get them. Keeping this in mind, have you ever wondered how much must pay Inditex, Primark, Amazon or Apple for the rent of some of its offices or stores? Amancio Ortega, like homemade main From these companies has that answer: almost 1 billion a year together. Choose buildings without borrowing. In addition to the founder of Inditex, Amancio Ortega is the creator of one of the greater real estate empires in Spain: Pontegadea. The basis of his fortune remains his participation of 59.29% in Inditex, which allows him to access Milmillonarios annual dividends which strategically reinveys premium buildings distributed throughout the world. All this without borrowing with third parties. However, instead of focusing your business on the sale of these properties to obtain surplus value, your goal is to make constant profitability through rentals. Since its buildings have been specifically selected by Its strategic location In the main capitals of the world, the big firms are tail To rent some of its premises. Millionaire rentals. Thanks to this strategy, Pontegadea registered in 2024 income linked to real estate of 977 million euros, According to data to those who have had access Digital economy. This figure represents a 20% increase with respect to the 657 million euros that Ortega’s real estate registered in its 2023 accounts. This increase means that, for the first time, Pontegadea has exceeded the joint revenues from rents of its main rivals in Spain: Merlin Properties and Colonial. Something that It already foresaw That could happen for some years. They always buy with tenants. Such and as he published Expansionin addition to making a strategic selection of its buildings, Pontegadea has as a guideline buy buildings already occupied by solvent tenants. This has been demonstrated in all its operations, such as the logistics center of Baldonnell Business Park of Dublin From which Amazon operates, the Amazon headquarters in Seattleor the Venlo distribution centerfrom which it serves as the operations center of the DSV parcel company, one of the largest in the world. Thus, the new properties that Pontegadea incorporates in its portfolio generates income from the first minute and ensures something very valuable for a landlord: a tenant that pays promptly. Inditex also pays for rent: A Pontegadea. It is paradoxical, but some of the dividends that Pontegadea de Inditex receives are invested in premises that are then rented to the different brands of the group to install their stores or stores in them. That Pontegadea is the owner of the main premises of Inditex is a strategic advantage (in addition to a fine irony), since thus the textile can better deal with the variations in the price of the real estate market and not shoot their operational costs. OK To what is published For the economic one Expansionin 2024, Inditex paid 46 million euros for real estate rental to Pontegadea. That figure represents 18% more than the previous year, when the figure reached 39 million. In Xataka | Amancio Ortega: the billionaire who lives as one more neighbor. Except for private jets and superyates Image | Gtres, Flickr (José Román)

China’s boom in the world of technology, visit to the headquarters of Byd in Shenzhen and much more in 1×14 crossover

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China has gone from being The world factory To be not only the world factory, but Pioneers in the world of technology. In a matter of just a few decades the Chinese market has made a huge quanti and qualitative leap, see His advances in the world of artificial intelligence, consumption devices, The appliances either vehicles. That leads to ask a question: In what situation is the West right now? It is a most interesting debate and with many edges, edges that we address in the 14th crossover episode. In the program, conducted by Carlos Santaengrandencia and Jaume Lahoz and already available on YouTubewe talk about this growth of China, how (and why) has taken so many giant steps and in what situation are currently both the United States and Europe. It is an episode, in fact, very focused on China. Both Carlos and our partner Alberto de la Torre They were recently in Xi’an (Shenzhen), home of the Central Headquarters of Byd. Not only did they have the opportunity to visit the area, but they could enter the factorysee how the firm’s electric cars are produced and test the fast loaders first hand. Fast, level: 400 kilometers of autonomy in just five minutes. In short, a very interesting program that helps us better know the world of technology, As geopolitics defines this market and the peculiarities of a country that advances at the speed of lightning. All this and much more, as always, in the new Crossover episode. On YouTube | Crossover

One week after the ninth launch of Starship, something is not going well at the Spacex headquarters

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There are few days left for the expected ninth test flight of Starship. Is scheduled, according to the Notice to navigatorsfor next Wednesday, May 21; And the tension is palpable. Not just because two previous starship will explode Before reaching its objective height, but because the situation in Starbase is quite similar to a pressure cooker. Morality in minimums. In recent days accusations have appeared on poor management of Starbase Since Elon Musk spends more time in the White House than at the company’s headquarters. A toxic work culture, serious security failures and managers’ behavior is undermining the moral of employees and putting the future of the company at risk, according to these complaints, published mainly on the social network X. The accusations, mainly poured by Morgan Wyatt Khan and Dylan Small, both ex -employed from Spacex, draw a bleak panorama in Starbase, the city that Elon Musk is building in Texas next to the factory and the starship launch facilities, the highest and most powerful rocket in the world. What should be a hotbed of enthusiasm seems to have become, for some, a hostile work environment. Risk situations. Morgan Wyatt Khan, who worked by installing engines in Starship, regrets having to leave a job he loved for the “disgusting and demoralizing behavior of the address.” In your messages, Ask for a Starbase audit and denounces the lack of knowledge and respect for the hardware from some workers. He also says he has seen robberies and risk situations, such as nitrogen exposure or the presence of “stones, screws, garbage and human waste” inside the rockets. He even mentions that the bosses ignored safety problems related to defective hydraulic systems and wonders if they are due to a negligent design or that “Elon has left Spacex in automatic pilot while dedicated to his adventures in the White House.” A “terrible” management. Dylan Small, who worked at Falcon 9 and later in Starship, describes the “terrible” Starbase management. Small recounts how he contracted tuberculosis during his stay in Starbase and the company handled the situation “unacceptable”, with “zero real support and a complete lack of attention.” Small denounces that Engineers attributed foreign ideasthat their requests to establish more efficient schedules were rejected and that I had never seen “so much personnel rotation and administrative dysfunction.” “Friends with more than 15 years in Spacex wonder what the hell has happened.” We need you, Elon. “Moral is low. People are burned and start feeling abandoned. Please come back and travel the plant,” Small writes in a message addressed to Elon Musk. “Talk to the technicians, the welders, the crane operators, the quality inspectors. Everyone continues to believe in the mission. They need you to help rekindle the spark.” The situation has reached such an extent that Musk himself responded to the accusations confirming that will be in Starbase next week To give a talk to employees before launch. Is Elon the solution? That is the big question. Elon Musk’s incursion into politics and his radical messages about immigration or gender ideology have led to, even within their companies, there is a growing division of opinions about his figure. Nor is it that Musk is known for promoting a healthy and pleasant work culture. His style tends more to micromanagement already exalt the overfoundputting as an example Your holiday aversion and the nights he has slept in his companies. As May water. At the moment of truth, morality will not improve unless Starship’s 9 flight is successful. To the explosions of flights 7 and 8 you have to add problems with an engine in a recent ignition test. Spacex needs, as May water, that the Starship 35 completes its objectives. But the most interesting thing will surely happen behind the scenes, where Elon Musk or some of their trusted people must take action on the matter to straighten the internal course of the company. Image | Spacex In Xataka | The most rocambolesque history of Spacex: an explosion, a sniper and enmity between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

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