Internet at 5 euros? Altice Portugal wants to reject ANACOM’s proposal

The Autoridade Nacional das Comunicações (ANACOM) recently revealed proposals for a social internet tariff. ANACOM wants the monthly fee to be five euros (6.15 euros with VAT at a rate of 23%) and guarantees 30 GB of internet traffic.

Altice Portugal has criticized Anacom’s proposal for an online social tariff, which it says “does not respect the position of the government” and expects the executive to “speak quickly, dismissing” the regulator’s report.

Operators suggested 10Mbps internet speed and 12GB traffic
ANACOM has proposed to the government to implement a monthly fee of five euros (6.15 euros with VAT at a rate of 23%) for broadband internet access.  In the final decision approved this week, the regulator increased the minimum monthly traffic value to offer the social tariff for broadband internet access, from 12 GB to 30 GB.
Altice Portugal has already suspended and expects the government to reject the proposal...

Unfortunately, it is no longer surprising that Altice Portugal learned of Anacom's multiple decisions.
This regulator's role in the past three years has been characterized by making decisions that go against public consultation, with what the government sets, and by changing the rules halfway through the game.

The proposal submitted by ANACOM to the government on the social tariff for the Internet “does not include, again, the considerations shared by the operators and contains substantial changes compared to the version subject to consultation, given that in the consultation the regulator asked for a decision on the 10Mbit offer,” the same source indicated. per second and a cap of 12 Gb traffic, not 30 Mbps and a 30 Gb "ceiling", ie "three times what was asked in the consultation".
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In terms of price, “The value being proposed by Anacom now represents a discount of over 65% compared to market practices, which contrasts sharply with what is applied in other sectors of activity and, internationally, in the electronic communications sector, which again illustrates the role of the regulator. In destroying the sector in Portugal”, he criticizes the company led by Alexandre Fonseca.


The potential world "of the social tariff for broadband Internet access is in the range of 800,000 people and will be distributed throughout the national territory, and the number of actual beneficiaries may be less than indicated," according to Anacom.
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