Rapporteur proposal includes internet for new rules for pay TV
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Mr Vital do Rego Filho (PMDB-PA) said recently that he could not leave the Internet out of its proposed new rules for cable TV because companies are already charging for packet video on demand over the World Wide Web. "This is a service of pay TV like any other. So I had to be in regulation," he said.
By being included among the segments made by the new law on pay TV, the Internet is having to follow the same percentage of equity set for distributors and producers of audiovisual content in the replacement of the Rego Filho PL 29/2007.
The rapporteur has already approved the proposal in the Committee for Economic Development of fully opening the market for content distribution to the performance of telecommunications companies, is a conventional form of pay TV or new media, such as phone and computer.
Rego Filho also maintained in 30%, the restriction of participation by telephone companies in the production of audiovisual content, as it is today in the newspapers and TV stations, which have to be at least 70% of the national capital.
This move would create problems for providers controlled by phone companies, as the IG (of Hi) and Terra (Telefónica). To produce audiovisual content is possible, these providers would have to fall within the limit of 30% of control by telecommunications companies.
"After the Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) matched for the press law content published by newspaper printed the contents published on the Internet, I could not omit on this issue," said the deputy. He said the internet today occupies a very important role in people's lives.
He explains that the measure is content for paid and free internet was not set up any kind of regulation. "Internet portals such as Terra and LI, if paid, must be regulated. The free content will remain free," he said.
Target the biggest differences and criticisms of TV stations, the quota system for national programming has been simplified in the opinion of Rego Filho. The quotas were proposed in late 2007 by the then Deputy Jorge Bittar (PT-SP), the Commission on Science and Technology, but his opinion was never voted.
The new proposal provides that 30% of Brazilian content is independently produced. This percentage, however, is not applied to foreign channels, unlike the quota system proposed by Bittar, who considered the entire grid in the suite. "I think the simplification solves the problem. And does not harm the national networks.
The rapporteur also commented that it allows the customer to purchase channels on a single piece out of the packages defined by the operators. He said this is one of the main demands of consumers who just want to pay for channels they watch. "The Code of Consumer Protection already prohibits the sale married," he said.
He expects the project to be voted on by the Consumer Protection in the first week of June, as it will use next week to review the proposed changes to its replacement.
Source: O Estado de Sao Paulo
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