The governors of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich; from Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad; from Salta, Gustavo Sáenz; from Jujuy, Gerardo Morales; from Catamarca, Raúl Jalil; and the Santiago del Estero Coordination Secretary, Cristian Oliva, have agreed on forming the strategic alliance of their provinces for the integration and exploitation of the Capricorn Network.

The leaders agreed to create a working group made up of technical teams in telecommunications from their provinces to strengthen the joint task with Enacom and Arsat. They have invited Tucumán and Corrientes to join the group.

The announcement is an important political step to the public-private project by the governors of the provinces through which the network passes. It also occurs at a time of intense activity by the State in relation to connectivity.

The group of governors took as a basic idea that the Covid-19 pandemic confirmed the importance of connectivity for education, the economy and politics and agreed to advance from the governorates with active policies. "We want that in every corner of Argentine NEA and NOA provinces there is access to telecommunications in an efficient and quality way," declared Capitanich from Chaco.

Capricorn was inaugurated last year and is the result of the interconnection of Silica Networks (Grupo Datco, Argentina) networks; of Ampernet Telecom (Brazil); and the Sapem: Ecom, from Chaco; Marandú, from Misiones and Refsa, from Formosa. Then integrated the Santiago del Estero network.

The articulation with Brazil allowed access to the submarine cables that link that country in San Pablo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza and provides a new access point to international connectivity through the Atlantic Ocean without having to go through Buenos Aires, with a shorter distance and reducing latency. The completion of a second stage of Capricorn contemplates continuing westward through the Paso de Jama, crossing to Chile and continuing to the Pacific Ocean to connect to the submarine cables through Arica and Antofagasta.