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Consumer association delivery letter to the FCC asking 4G internet

05/02/2013

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Brasilia - Suspicions that consumers who purchase mobile internet technology fourth generation (4G) may be being misled led to the Brazilian Consumer Defense (Protest) to question the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) the new service offered by service operators in Brazil. The organization delivered today (29) a trade in which the agency argues that limiting downloads shortly become high and limit the speed of 4G internet, vaunted as the great advantage of the product.

Institutional coordinator of Protest, Maria Ines Dolci, told Agencia Brazil that consumers go through a similar situation to that of a person who "pays for a carriage halfway turns pumpkin." According to her, who hires 4G service wants to transmit large amount of data quickly. Therefore, if the operators put a limit on the amount of data and decides that, hit it, the network speed decreases, they would be somewhat deceiving the consumer.

This, added to the coordinator of Protest, can be characterized as misleading, because more expensive devices will be used to lower speeds. To make matters worse, the devices currently used for the range of 2.5 giga-hertz (GHz) can not be used also for the range of 700 megahertz (MHz), scheduled to be auctioned next year.

"That is, after signing the contract with the operator of fidelity and realize the limitation of download, the consumer needs to transmit and receive large amounts of data will be seen in the obligation to adhere to another level, certainly more expensive. Also, if you want to migrate to another carrier, the 700 MHz band, he will have to purchase another device, "explained Maria Inês. "The problem is that none of this is being reported."

Contacted by Agency Brazil, Anatel reported that only manifest itself on the matter after receiving the letter of Protest.

Editing: Fabio Massalli



Source: Agencia Brazil

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