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Minimum Internet will not apply to 2.7 million homes

Minimum Internet will not apply to 2.7 million homes

They delimit benefit. Both the MTC and Osiptel have been making adjustments to the regulations for the new minimum internet speed of 70% that operators must offer to users.

The new minimum broadband internet speed, established by the law 31207, implies that the operators provide 70% of the contracted service and no longer 40%; Nevertheless, the measure will only benefit 230,000 households nationwide of the 3 million broadband internet connections that exist, according to Carlos Huamán, executive director of DN Consultores.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (TCM) established a few weeks ago, through a regulatory initiative, a way to limit the obligation provided by law 31207, so that this 70% obligation, of the 3 to 1 ratio between download and upload, applies only to a specific list rate plans,” Huamán specified.

What does this adjustment imply?

The new MTC parameters define what is broadband internet and what is not. Therefore, the minimum speed for effective broadband downloads for fixed internet goes from 4 Mbps to 20 Mbps; while for charging it goes from 1 Mbps to 7 Mbps.

For download and upload, in broadband for mobile internet, it goes from 4 Mbps to 5 Mbps and from 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps, respectively.

Engineer Felipe Reyes, a specialist in optical networks, explains that, for example, the rule will affect plans that are higher than 30 Mbps, since 70% results in the new minimum (20 Mbps).

Regarding mobile internet speed, the rule will affect networks 4G up. In addition, through the Resolution of the Board of Directors #00221-2022-CDthe Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Osiptel) proposes that mobile coverage is no longer evaluated by populated center (CCPP), but by antenna (EBC), with the operator itself defining the guaranteed coverage area of ​​each EBC, says Reyes.

In this way, both the MTC and Osiptel are making ongoing adjustments so that the operators comply with the regulations that are already in force since December 3, 2022.

Compliance will be evaluated in the measurements that are carried out from the first semester of 2023, as reported by the supervisory body to The Republic.

Osiptel and MTC have been making adjustments to Law 31207. Photo: Osiptel

Osiptel and MTC have been making adjustments to Law 31207. Photo: Osiptel

Does this measure exist in other countries of the world?

The Minimum Guaranteed Speed ​​(VMG), as these types of measures are known, exists only in five countries: Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina, Paraguay and Peru, According to a review carried out by Osiptel, which considers all the nations of the Latin American region, USACanada, Mexico, the main economies in Europe and some leaders in Asia.

In the opinion of Carlos Huamán, it is not a common practice at the regulation level, but the market is left to be in charge of making this information transparent so that users can make their consumption decisions.

“As the market becomes increasingly competitive, it is less and less necessary. The competition has motivated all the operators to increase the contracted speeds,” the expert maintains in this medium.

For his part, Manuel Cipriano, former vice president of Osiptel, commented that if there are few countries that apply this type of regulation, it is because they depend on different factors that have to be adjusted to the reality of each one: installed infrastructure, capacity, spectrum availability that the operators have, the degree of maturity of the markets of telephony mobile, among others.

“In our case, what is worrying is that there are still very remote areas of our country that do not have access to Internetsince there is not enough infrastructure, that is, there are no antennas to provide the service adequately”, Cipriano said.

It is noteworthy that Osiptel did not include Chile as one of the countries that have regulations of this type. As of December 2022, Chile ranked first as the country with the highest fixed internet broadband speed (220.96 Mbps) in the region and third in the world; in terms of mobile speed (27.86 Mbps), it ranks 3 and 71, respectively, according to Ookla [Ver infografía].

The Osiptel pair in the neighboring country to the south, the Undersecretary of Telecommunications (SUBTEL), established in 2020 that the minimum guaranteed speed that operators must offer is 90%, which is being implemented to date.

  Access.  The internet has become more and more necessary.  Photo: diffusion

Access. The internet has become more and more necessary. Photo: diffusion

Fine can reach S/1.7 million

According to Osiptel, Law 31207 does not establish a specific fine regarding non-compliance with the minimum speed.

“It is through Osiptel’s rules that the fines to be imposed on companies are estimated,” the agency told La República.

For this, an analysis is carried out, on a case-by-case basis, of the non-compliance detected at the level of the populated center in accordance with what is indicated in the Quality Regulation, to then estimate the amount of the penalty feewith a ceiling of 350 ITU or S/1 million 732 thousand 500.

The measurements of the Minimum Speed ​​Compliance indicator are analyzed by populated center and on a semi-annual basis.

figures

75.18 Mbps is the world average fixed internet speed, according to the portal okla.

36.74 Mbps is the world average for mobile.

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Source: Larepublica

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