Anatel approves use of broadband by power network
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The board director of National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) approved on Thursday (2) the rules for using the power network to access the internet at high speed (broadband). The rapporteur of the topic, advisor Emília Ribeiro, said the measure will stimulate market competition and encourage expansion of services throughout the country
"We are making an otherwise universal. We reach the digital and social inclusion in tips," said Emilia. According to counsel, the Regulation will enter into force until the next Wednesday (8th). From there, Anatel may already license to provide services to the companies concerned.
To start the operation, in the opinion of Emilia, companies must await the definition of rules by the National Agency of Electrical Energy (Aneel), whose proposal is still under consultation and will only be completed on May 31.
Technically, the networks of distribution of electric energy are ready to provide this service. It would be necessary to make some adjustments to cost, how to install routers in posts to direct the data transmission. The client, in turn, need to have a modem in the home or office, similar to the devices that the telephone companies or cable TV use to provide Internet access.
The connection speed of this kind of technology starts with 20 megabits per second (Mbps), well above the capacity of the services offered today, which usually go up to 10 Mbps.
The advantage of the power network on other networks is the coverage, since it reaches 97% of the population. Today, only 5 million people still lack access to electricity in Brazil. The government program "Light for All", this deficit must be reset by the end of next year.
As the distribution of energy are forbidden by law to provide other services beyond the supply of electricity, they will create specific telecommunications companies to offer broadband Internet. The Aneel intended to require the distribution of additional revenue with the rental of the wires is used to lower power tariffs.
Union
The board director of Anatel approved the inclusion of a clause in the concession contracts of fixed telephony to make it clear that the infrastructure for broadband, known as backhaul, is a well that has to return to the Union at the end of the concession, in 2025.
The controversy arose in November last year when a Federal Court injunction granted to the Brazilian Association of Consumer Protection Test Pro, suspending the exchange of the goals of universalization of telephone utilities for the creation of a national broadband infrastructure.
This change was made in April of last year through an additive to the concession contract. It is based in the broadband network that the government and the concessionaires have signed, in April, an agreement to bring high-speed Internet in the 55 thousand urban public schools by end of 2010.
The lawyer's Pro Test Flávia Lefévre argued at the time that the exchange of goals allowed the companies invest resources in favor of universal private, since the additive does not guarantee the return of broadband networks to the Union
The government and Anatel appealed unsuccessfully to the Federal Regional Court (TRF) of the 1st Region, in Brasilia, to try to revoke the injunction. The TRF, however, maintained the decision of first instance to understand that it is vital to ensure reversibility of the backhaul to the Union
According to Anatel, the change need not be submitted for public consultation was because the proposed contract additive which was put on public consultation by Anatel last year and ended up withdrawing the final text.
Source: State Agency
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