A half-sanction for the "short law" that gives way to telecommunications operators on satellite television

The Senate of the Nation gave a half-sanction yesterday to the draft "Law to promote the deployment of ICT infrastructure and competition "It was approved in committee last Wednesday, with an amended opinion on the one sent by the executive power. According to the text, the telephone companies and the licensees of information and communication technology (ICT) services must provide their infrastructure to other licensees for the deployment of their networks, to the extent that "[] 19659004] Since the merger of Telecom with Cablevisión there is less than a week for the defense of competition, creating the largest telecommunications operator in Argentina and one of the largest in the region, the decision is relevant it follows from the law to extend until July 2020 the possibility that the telephone operators can offer satellite broadcasting and satellite TV services in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario. The schedule will now be from January 1, 2021 for urban centers of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants and is postponed to January 1, 2022 for smaller cities, indicates the text voted yesterday and approved by 46 votes against 11. [19659004] The initiative aims to level the supply of companies with different access capabilities, especially protecting all cable operators and telecom cooperatives in the interior of the country.