After 20 years of privatization, changed phone usage

Most of the revenue of the Talbot comes from the internet, a clear demonstration of how the scene changed in the telecommunications industry. This Sunday, together 20 years of privatization of brazilian phone. In 1998, the Country had 17 million fixed lines and 4.6 million cell phones. Today, there are cell lines 235.5 million active (more than the 208.5 million of Brazilians) and 40.8 million fixed telephony lines. On broadband, are fixed and access 28.7 million 204.1 million mobile connections. Moreover, 17.8 million Brazilians are pay-TV customers, according to data from SindiTelebrasil, which represents the industry. Today, according to the consultancy Teleco, fixed services, broadband represents almost 40% of the turnover of the companies, compared with 24% in 2010, while the fixed telephony reduced your participation to 30.8%, compared to 57.1% in 2010. In mobile telephony, the curve is reversed: in 2012, voice services accounted for 78.6% of revenue, and internet, 21.4%. Today, data is 62.1% of revenues, while voice dropped to 37.9%. The flagship brand of privatization was the competition in the industry, says the President of the consulting firm Teleco, Eduardo Tude. "It was the competition that ended the waiting lines of fixed and mobile phones and allowed the development of services that didn't even exist at the time." Executive Secretary of the Ministry of communications at the time, the President of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Juarez Quadros, points out that the breaking of the monopoly of Telebras was fundamental to the growth of the population's access to the services of telephony. It was necessary to pass a law, a draft amendment to the Constitution (PEC) and create a regulatory agency. The privatization yielded the Union R $22 billion. Today, in addition to the four major companies in the sector, there are thousands of small providers of fixed and mobile internet in the country. To the Chief Executive Officer of Sinditelebrasil, Eduardo Levy, the privatization of telcos was the biggest social inclusion program promoted by companies in the country. "Everything was done without public money." Access to the fixed telephony is universalized and overcome, but public policies still direct most of the investments for this service, highlights paintings. The general law of telecommunications, 1997, is in effect and has not yet been updated. Expansion. The new regulatory framework of the sector is intended for the companies ' resources to the expansion of the internet and allows the migration of concessions to the regime of permits. The award scheme, the goods used in the provision of the service (buildings, equipment) must be returned to Union at the end of the term of the concessions, and companies are required to fulfil goals of universalization of services. In the authorization, the goods belong to the operator, who can dispose of them as you want and the services can be offered according to the interest of the company. The project was voted by the Board at the end of 2016 and expressly approved in the Senate. A feature of the opposition in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) returned the proposal to the Senate, but the President of the House, Eunício Oliveira (MDB-EC), never took the project. "What is lacking today is an Executive and Legislative action to define a new public policy for the sector. When this occurs, Anatel is ready to implement what is approved. It's not up to Anatel public policy, "said Qazi.