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Rule only applies to the Hi and worth in May. local and long distance calls are now released
payphone calls to mobile will become free in May Marcello Casal Jr / 08.08.2012 / ABr
Public phones Hi, installed in 14 states of the country, will become free calls to mobiles in the same area code (VC1) from 1 May. The decision is of Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) and was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday (29).
Initially, the gratuity would be worth on Friday (1), but a decision of Anatel itself extended the deadline by one month.
States benefit from the gratuity in public telephones of Hi are Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Paraná, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
The release calls on the public telephone operator is a punishment of the regulatory agency, since the company did not meet the minimum coverage obligation in the country.
States served by Hi must have public phones availability above 90%. If only locations served by public telephones, the availability should be at least 95%.
Sergipe was on the list, but was dropped after the company improved public phones offer the state.
Since April last year, the operator was already obliged to release free calls from public phones for local calls, and since October 2015, to landlines of other states (intercity).
The release of calls to the same area code cell is the third consecutive punishment for Hi. In April 2015, the company was forced to free local calls from public telephones. In October, it was time for long distance calls.
From May, it will be the cell phones of the same area code. If, in October, the company does not improve the provision of payphones in 14 states, the Hi will be forced to free calls to mobiles with the same first digit area codes (VC2) and the two different digits (VC3).
The R7's report came in contact with the company, but received no return until the publication of this report.
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