The government changed this Tuesday the way the last one increases in pay-TV, telephone and internet servicesthus leaving the values made official on December 29 without effect.
through the Resolution 2494/2022published in the latest edition of Official Bulletin with the signature of Claudio AmbrosiniPresident of enacom (National Communications Authority), the staggered increase for a total of 17.6% of retail prices which had been set by the Resolution 2393/2022.
In particular, the increase would have been up to 9.8% from 1 February 2023 and up to 7.8% from 1 April of the same year.
With the publication of the new document, a new auction system was set up: Mobile Communication Services (SCM) concessionaires will be able to apply from 1 January 2023 an increase in retail prices of up to 4%taking as reference their current prices as at 31 December 2022.
From February 1stIn the meantime, suppliers will be allowed to impose a new increase up to 4% on the same prices, taking the updated values as a reference. From 1st Marchthe increase will be up to 3.5%while from April 1st this increase will be repeated.
These figures will regulate, according to the legislation, “for the concessionaires of Mobile Communication Services (SCM), as well as for those of Internet Access Value Added Services (SVA-I), Fixed Telephony Services (STF), Radio Broadcasting Services in Subscription via physical or radio-electric connection (SRSVFR) and Audiovisual Communication Services for Subscription Broadcasting via satellite connection (DTH)”.
What about the prepaid
With regard to prepaid telephony, it has been established that starting January 1, 2023, the top-up value of 50 megabits (MB) of mobile data per day will cost $41.04, and that the second of voice will cost $0.63 and that the SMS will be worth $8.21 each, in all cases including tax.
On February 1, these values will rise to $42.68, $0.65 and $8.54 respectively, while from March 1 they will rise to $44.18, $0.68 and $8.84, and from March 1 April at $45.72, $0.70 and $9.14.
The legislation indicated that any surcharge applied by the ICT or DTH (Satellite TV) Service Concessionaires that exceeds these limits must be reimbursed to its users in the next invoice to be issued, with updating and interest subject to the same interest rate applied to their own users . customers for late payment.
In the event that the user chooses not to pay his invoice with surcharges higher than those authorized, the suppliers they will not be able to suspend the service nor calculate arrears on such invoices.
In 2022, Enacom had already authorized two 9.5% surcharges applied respectively to invoices from 1 May and 1 July. New increases of 19.8% on 1 October and 9.8% on 1 December were then added.
Why was the method of increases changed?
As specified in the resolution, an attempt is made to “make the maximum increases compatible with the current economic policy”. For this reason, the “price agreements recently signed by the Ministry of Commerce” were taken into consideration, such as “the agreements on the prices of drugs with the pharmaceutical sector, in the clothing sector, with the main shoe factories and with the companies producing basic industrial entrances”.
“It is a question of adapting the increases duly authorized by Enacom resolution n. 2393/2022 to the policies established in these agreements”, they remarked.
In this way Enacom “aligns with the policies implemented by the National Government and executed by the Ministry of Economy, in order to bring order to prices and bring predictability and relief to Argentines, to guarantee access to something as fundamental as the Services involved here”.
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Source: Clarin
