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09/01/2013
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Minute price difference comes to have 400%
A bill which is being processed in the House of Representatives would prohibit charging differentiated between postpaid and prepaid mobile.
The proposal by Mr Cesar Halum (PSD-TO), wants to end what he considers "abuse in the collection of charges for prepaid lines of mobile." The plans represent 81% of pre more than 255 million lines in service.
According to analysis by Halum, the cost of the connection minutes comes to have a 400% difference between one plane and another.
- There is a misrepresentation that harms users in classes C and D, which are mostly in the prepaid segment and bear the higher prices and rates of telephony.
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Moreover, Halum justifies the prepayment of prepaid customers is more expensive than one made after use, which has no market logic that has no possibility of default.
If approved, the proposal would amend the General Telecommunications Law (9.472/97), which already prohibits conduct detrimental to free competition, fair and wide among providers of the service, as the practice of artificial subsidies to reduce prices.
The proposal will be examined by committees conclusive character of Science and Technology, Communication and Computing, and the Constitution, Justice and Citizenship.
Also being processed a similar bill in the House, Mr Felipe Bornier (PSD-RJ). The PL 3906/12 wants to ban unfair price difference between tariffs and service plans prepaid and post-paid mobile.
Source: R7 News
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