Faced with alternatives to traditional telephony, market discusses the need for recovery rate (2)
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To renew the concession contracts (now worth 2025), the fixed telephony concessionaires had to prove to Anatel compliance until December 2005, the targets of universal services of STFC by creating PSTs and expansion of coverage of assets. But according Flávia Lefevre, after 2006 the goals are no longer met.
- Some utilities implemented from PSTs, but the ABRAFIX (Brazilian Association of Concessionaires Switched Fixed Telephone Service) knocked on the door of the Ministry of Communications requesting an exchange of goals. They (dealers) never wanted to do and no PST by decree, managed to switch targets and create a link with the Broadband in Schools program. Meanwhile, stayed up the attainment of the targets for two years - Flávia says.
The lawyer points out that in Brazil there are 20 telephones for every hundred people, but there are states in which the ratio is eight lines for every hundred inhabitants.
- The poor can not be signed because the phone is very expensive. The test asks that the Pro is that there is a goal - not for new PSTs or to expand backhaul. We just reduced the price of the subscription base or its extinction.
John of God, of Hi, Flávia rebate of the charges, saying that it is confusing the issue of infrastructure on broadband - deliberately - using the prepositions "from" and "to" - to justify the arguments.
- The USA share a mental exercise whose purpose is not to discuss reversibility backhaul or exchange of PSTs by enabling broadband infrastructure, is a speech sneaky. The PSTs are internet via dialup line, or have no future whatsoever. Before they virassem skeletons, we replace them with an infrastructure that enables broadband, which is in the public, not confused with the structure of broadband, which is the private - explains. - Today, 100% broadband enabled by fixed-line business is to support the network of STFC, which remains in the public.
What about the goals of universalization, the Hi came to fulfill them?
- The obligations of universalization are not like popcorn, which appear and vanish. They come and stay. The ears are there, the networks are there for small cities. The investment for the provision of services aimed at the universal telephony generate huge cost of maintenance and continuity. And you continue with these costs forever - says John - From 2008, we aim to roll a thousand PSTs and we put them, but came a decree suspending the plant and the PSTs were lost. The lawyer (Flávia) USA techniques of defamation based on false arguments.
And Anatel, as is this imbroglio? It would be possible to review the contracts and remove the clause that guarantees them a basic income arising from the signing, which, according to ABRAFIX is one third of the revenues of the sector? According to Gilberto Alves, superintendent of public services of the Agency, when signing the service fixed the user has individual access to infrastructure: a pair of copper leaves the device in the house and going to the telephone exchange. This differs from the telephony services such as water and light, whose networks are collective.
- You immobilizes the equipment, which must be paid, depending on the use or not. The concept of signature is present in all the services and there is always associated charge. Contracts for fixed telephony is legal, rights to provide services that are not easy to reverse, as it is guaranteed source of funds - says Gilberto. - After completion of contractual obligations, getting the signature, since neither the union nor the utilities reported, the Agency, an imbalance in the contracts?
But in front of thousands of cases dealt in court, will not be time to hear the views of users about this collection?
- In the last three years, the increases were lower than the rate of inflation, which is seen as a reduction in value. The need for the signature of the technology is reasonable. We know, however, that the feeling of the user is to pay less. In public consultations that publish many issues will be addressed, including pricing. We, on our part, recognition that the contracts need to be revisited periodically.
What about the objections of Pro Test that operators pressure the Agency and the government in order to meet targets and not to use resources from STFC (and even here, the value of the subscription paid by customers) for creation of infrastructure to banda large?
- Instead of installing something over (the PSTs), you better bring a solution to modern and future prospects. Now you ask me: and to reduce the amount of subscription? Who needs PST and backhaul is not the staff of St. Paul, but people who live inside, which depend on a device that has not returned to dealerships. You must be a form of compensation the department for small towns, which would otherwise not be seen - says the superintendent of Anatel.
In a note, the ABRAFIX says that "the elimination of the signature would be a contractual breach unprecedented in Brazil and, if adopted in an isolated manner, determine the economic and financial viability of the utilities." Says that "any decision against the signing of the basic rate is subject to appeal by the utilities, because it is a telephony service operated in concession by the EU regulation of competence Anatel.."
About autorizat of competition in fixed telephony market and the launch of new products, ABRAFIX says "that inform the operators that do not charge subscription fees to have packages of minimum consumption of minutes and use rates far above the service charged by the concessionaires phone location. Thus, it is clear to distinguish the scenarios for local fixed operators, which are obliged to universal. "
Source: O Globo Online
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