Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
 


Consumer News

Anatel asks the government more resources to monitoring

This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.


The chairman of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Ronaldo Sardenberg, asked this Thursday (5), during the seminar "Telecommunications Policy", that the government release more resources for the agency's work to the monitoring of companies in the sector. "Surveillance is expensive. We need more resources to make a leap forward," said Sardenberg, arguing that, increasingly, the company, charging that the agency's regulatory role.

Last year, the central assistance of Anatel recorded nearly 1 million complaints about the provision of fixed and mobile telephony. Sardenberg said he wants to talk with the Minister of Planning, Budget and Management, Paulo Bernardo, on the cut of $ 54 million made in the budget of Anatel. The agency had requested resources for this year of $ 380 million. In the Budget Law, the value dropped to U.S. $ 326 million. Last week, with the cut of $ 37.2 billion in total budget for the Executive, the resources for Anatel dropped to $ 272 million.

The biggest impact of 25%, is precisely the resources for surveillance, according Sardenberg. "With these cuts, Anatel does not make the progress that has to do," said the president of Anatel, citing the need for training of staff and purchase equipment. "With these cuts, we can undermine the basics of supervision," said Sardenberg, remembering that every year, the telecommunications sector presents a high growth in number of customers, especially in cellular telephony, which last year rose by more 20%.

The great controversy occurs around the fact that the telecommunications industry a year pay about $ 3 billion rate monitoring, and most of those resources - more than 80% - is retained in the vaults of the National Treasury.

One of the demands of business is that the government intended this money to finance projects that benefit the population groups with lower income, with offering cheaper services.

Extra Point

The president of Anatel said that appointing a group of engineers of the agency to do a survey of the costs of the extra point of cable TV. He says the group will have 15 days to complete the work, which subsidize the Board of Directors of Anatel in the decision to allow or not that companies continue to charge the extra point.

The Cable TV operators argue that the offer of the extra point has a cost and that if the recovery is prohibited, this cost will be passed to the subscriber only has the main point. The counselor's Anatel Emília Ribeiro, rapporteur of the proceedings on the subject, presented a vote in favor of recovery. "It recovered, because it has a price," said Emilia, who participates in the same seminar.

Emília Ribeiro said in their vote that companies have to detail the accounts received by the subscribers being charged. According to her, companies now charge on average U.S. $ 12.00 U.S. $ 19.00 by the extra point. "Anyone charging more than that, and Anatel will be driven," said the counselor.

The recovery of the extra point is discussed in Anatel since last year, and there were successive postponements. It also discusses the Expansion Plan of the Cable TV industry as the first step to an auction of licenses for cable TV. Emília Ribeiro said that the definition of the plan is linked to the solution of the discussion around the extra point.



Source: State Agency

Our stories are taken in full of the sites of our partners. Therefore, we can not change the contents of these cases even of typing errors.

This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.

Important:
The JurisWay site does not interfere in the work provided by doctrine, why only reflect the opinions, ideas and concepts of their authors.


  Subjects list
 
  Copyright (c) 2006-2009. JurisWay - All rights reserved.