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Anatel reduce tariffs between operators

10/04/2012

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Change decreases the advantage of mobile plans with "club links" and increases competition among telcos. In 2011, the rate earned R$ 20 billion, amount transferred to customers; measure the effect on price Anatel link is uncertain
 
Anatel (the agency that regulates the telecommunications industry) will adopt a measure that can change the price of links between different operators and aims to increase competition among cell phone companies.
 
The agency wants to accelerate the reduction of fees charged when customers connect to other carriers, call termination rates, or even eliminate them. The value ends up being passed on to customers.
 
Folha learned that the subject under discussion in Anatel for a decade, will enter the agenda of the board of the agency in a month. How has government support, must get the approval of a majority of the directors.
 
Currently, 80% of calls in mobile telephony, on average, customers are made to the same company at a lower cost.
 
The result is called the "club effect", ie the concentration of users and their acquaintances in the same operator as a way to get cheaper rates, thus undermining competition in the industry.
 
Initially, the intention of the FCC is to balance the cost of calls made from the same company and between different operators.
 
Since the beginning of the year, the FCC ruled gradual reduction of interconnection charges, which rose from R$ 0.42, on average, to R$ 0.36, and must fall to R$ 0.33, in 2013, and  R$0.31, in 2014.
 
One proposal under consideration now is to establish that at least 60% of calls between operators are free of taxation. Another possibility is to extinguish the charge.
 
In 2011, operators have raised $ 20 billion with the interconnection fee, 20% of net sales of services, according to data from consultancy Teleco.
 
The end of the tariff may reduce the profitability of companies and end up with an important tool to retain customers. The telecommunications expert Eduardo Tude sees risk rates of the connections between the incumbent rise to offset this effect.
 
CPI deflated
 
With the change in the rules of collection, Anatel expects CPI to deflate the telcos in Congress that investigates the gains of the operators with interconnection fee, plus the delay of the FCC to resolve the issue.
 
The CPI already has the necessary signatures and their installation depends only on a decision of the mayor, Marco Maia (PT-RS).
He already said to be in favor of the CPI, but the government is against.


Source: ANATEL

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