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Posted: Thursday, June 08, 2017, 14:29 | Last Updated on Thursday, June 08, 2017, 14:29 | Views
Anatel's board of directors approved changes in the local, long-distance (LDN) and international fixed-line (LDI) concession contracts. The Resolution with the changes was published this Thursday (08.06) in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU). The agency also approved changes to the universal service targets (PGMU) of the public service concessionaries - Oi, Telefonica, Embratel, Sercomtel and Algar, which will be in force until 2020. The contracts will be signed with the companies.
The PGMU is part of the concession contracts that will be in force until 2025. They would expire on June 30 of this year. The changes were approved after the public consultation, as determined by the legislation.
Some points considered in the contract renewal and in the PGMU are the marked loss of attractiveness of the fixed-line service, the competitive pressure of other telecommunications services and users' consumption habits.
Proposals for universalization goals
The expectation is that in the coming days a presidential decree on the PGMU should be published. The proposal of universalisation goals, forwarded by Anatel to the Executive Branch, defines that from now on the installation of individual or collective telephones in smaller localities will only be done on demand of the user.
In localities with more than 300 inhabitants, for example, the deadline for installing the phones will be seven days from the request of the consumer in 90% of cases. But all requests must be answered within a maximum of 25 days.
Of the earphones installed in the localities, at least 10% must be in places accessible to the public for 24 hours. And everyone must also allow national and international calls.
In the municipalities' headquarters, the concessionaires must maintain installed backhaul capacity in December 2010. Backhaul is the network infrastructure of the fixed telephone used to access broadband.
Source: Anatel
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