Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 6:31:21 GMT
The Government is preparing a law to reduce the rates that telecommunications companies offer to minimum incomes and households with economic difficulties . Through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, directed by Roberto Sánchez, the draft would replace the old general telecommunications law prepared in 2014 by the Executive of Mariano Rajoy. In view of the approval of the standard, companies such as Telefónica, Vodafone or Orange must begin to take the new prices into account when preparing their commercial rates.
Precisely, the orange telecom has gone ahead of the Government, launching just a few days ago a new rate for beneficiaries of the minimum income or the minimum vital income for 15 euros per month (100 Mbps of fiber, unlimited Lithuania Mobile Number List calls on mobile phones and 3GB of data ). The draft bill, which will presumably reach Congress early next year , will reflect in its Article 38 that "the retail prices at which the services included within the universal service are provided must be affordable and must not prevent consumers from with low incomes or with special social needs access such services by royal decree," according to VozPópuli .
Read more: Google will open a data center in Madrid thanks to a new agreement with Telefónica, which it will take advantage of to boost its cloud services, artificial intelligence and big data division On the other hand, the draft explains that "Competition may impose, on an exceptional basis, the obligation to offer these options or rate packages only to the operator or operators designated by virtue of the provisions of article 40 ", in which case it must ensure that all low-income consumers or consumers with special social needs can choose from a variety of operators with "rates appropriate to their needs, unless this proves impossible or creates an excessive additional organizational or financial burden.