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Roaming: Senate Commission withdraws from PL agenda prohibiting collection

11.27.2015

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The bill that prohibits the collection of additional charge ("roaming") to cell phone users to make and receive calls outside of their home areas, already approved by the House of Representatives, was removed from the agenda on Wednesday ( 24/11) by the Consumer Protection Commission of the Senate. The project, which already has a favorable opinion issued by the rapporteur, senator Vanessa Grazziotin (PCdoB-AM), was removed from the agenda of the commission, at the request of the rapporteur herself. 

Author of the story, Congressman Ceará Chico Lopes, also from the PCdoB, charges the immediate project vote, which depends only such approval to proceed to sanction of the President Rousseff and become law, benefiting consumers throughout Brazil. 

Withdrawal from the agenda, the Defence Committee of the Senate Consumer, is a step back in the fight for consumer protection agencies, lawmakers and citizens by the end of the collection "roaming", which penalizes million consumers. The end of the collection of "roaming" is supported by consumer organizations such as the National Association of Procon, the Protest and Procon Fortaleza. Along with the request for the matter to be withdrawn from the agenda, it was presented Wednesday in committee, request performance of a new public hearing on the subject.

For the deputy Chico Lopes, author of the project, there is no need or justification for a new public hearing with a view that matter the National Congress since 2011. "The need to ban this charge has already been extensively discussed both by Congress as by consumer protection authorities. The end of the 'roaming' will represent a concrete relief in the consumer's pocket, which will be free of charge high values for phone calls made outside your home area. The consumer will be free including the deterrent condition of using the cell phone, if only to receive calls, in the case of prepaid cell in which the user does not have credits and is in a location of your online source region, "he said Chico Lopes. 

"If the project already has a favorable opinion in his own defense committee of the Senate Consumer, what it takes is to have it voted on and approved immediately without further delay to a measure that will bring a big benefit to the consumer," he adds Deputy Chico Lopes. 

"At the moment various entities such as Protest reinforce the national campaign to end this unfair charge and that both penalizes the consumer, we can not go back in this fight. We need to strengthen the campaign to ask senators to vote and approve as soon as the end of the roaming, "said defending the urgent return of the project to the agenda of the commission. 

Opinion in the Senate is favorable to the consumer 

The opinion of the senator Vanessa Grazziotin favorable to PL prohibiting the charging of roaming, says "full agreement" on the grounds that a new law will protect from charging consumers living all over the country. The opinion is in favor of constitutionality, the legality and merit of the proposal. 

Right to telephone as an essential service 

"Mobilization of all citizens, to wide awareness of the importance of this vote and this fight is important. Consumers are against roaming, which generates huge revenues for the telephone operators and penalizes users. People are not entitled to use cell, as with those who have prepaid phone and are outside your home area, "says the deputy Chico Lopes. 

"Anyone traveling and need to use the phone to work is impaired by paying 'roaming' so long to call and to receive calls. And those who have prepaid cellular, like most phone users in Brazil, see the credits quickly disappear and is unable to even receive calls, "he says, citing concrete injury to users. 

Unjustified collection 

For Chico Lopes, the collection of "roaming" has long ceased to make sense, given that, unlike what happened in the early years of cell phone service in Brazil, when operators had to rent the network of other companies to meet displacement users to other states, each carrier currently has national network, with a presence in most states. 

National campaign 

The term of office of Congressman launched the "End Roaming - Pro Brazil Up Log in More," which was among the most talked about topics on Twitter, on several occasions, beginning in the second half of 2011. The online mobilization has been enhanced with " tuitaços "all Mondays, always with great participation of Internet users in several states, confirming the expectations of society by the end of the billing and fairer prices for mobile telephony. Chico Lopes also met with the leadership of the National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL), advocating the end of "roaming" and relying on good reception. The Agency has shown support for the idea and said that conducts studies on possible measures for the purpose of collection.

Source: Idec

 

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