Broadband public can get in three capital
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The new structure national broadband policy, which has been studied by the government, could begin operating in six months by the cities of Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro.
It is expected the Minister of Communications, Hélio Costa, who discussed the matter on Tuesday evening with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the ministers of Planning, Paulo Bernardo, Science and Technology, Sérgio Resende, and Education, Fernando Haddad.
According to Costa, Lula ordered the ministers to submit in 40 days, a proposal "objective" of public policy for broadband, today restricted to about 10 million hits.
"Brazil has to have broadband access in all municipalities, with quality and speed," said Helio Costa, noting that this requires an infrastructure "extraordinary".
One of the ideas of government is to restore the old state telephone Telebrás for it to be the manager of this program, but that decision has yet been taken. According to Costa, it will be decided after the ministers to submit their proposals.
The talks, according to the minister, are reportedly underway to use immediately, the fiber optic networks Petrobras and Furnas, the circuit Belo Horizonte, Rio and Brasilia. In a second step, would be incorporated into the network of Eletronet, which has 16 thousand kilometers of fiber optics connecting the Rio Grande do Sul and Ceara.
Costa noted that there is already a decision of the Court of Rio de Janeiro to the fibers of Eletronet are returned to the government. He said, however, that the revitalization of these fibers should be made "long term".
The Eletronet was created in 1999 by electric utilities to provide telecommunications services, but went bankrupt in 2003, leaving no use their networks.
The government initiative follows a trend of strengthening the presence of the state in areas considered strategic, as has been occurring in the oil, electricity, mining and banking.
Costa, however, denies that the government's intention to turn this new state-owned telecommunications company to compete with private operators already operating in the country, in a process of re-nationalization of the sector, which was privatized in 1998.
"You do not have a chance. The government will not do one thing that businesses do very well. We will not compete. On the contrary, we want these companies to participate in this project," he said.
The telcos could, in the opinion of the minister, enter the project to bring broadband to the end user. As the fibers of Petrobras, Furnas and Eletronet form large networks - as a backbone - would miss the branches to connect the cities. The minister considered inevitable to implement a program of broadband policy in Brazil.
"We have to make the digital inclusion. The modern world demands it, the country demands it. We stand behind Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia (in broadband access). Brazil can not be behind," he said. Priority will serve schools and public safety and telemedicine, linking police stations, hospitals and clinics, for example.
Also participate in the study group, the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES), the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), and the agencies of Telecommunications (Anatel) and Energy (Aneel).
Source: State Agency
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