Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society Vianna Mainohe assured that the current administration Aims to complete the signing of concession contracts with two mobile phone companies Claro and Movistar before the end of this Government. He also pointed out that what companies pay must not be less than what has already been paid in the first instance.

He said it in one interview in Teleamazon, in which he also stated that the population will not be left without telephone service, despite the fact that the contracts are about to expire, and commented that in a short time the contracts will be extended for the peace of companies and citizens.

“We will not be out of service for no reason. Regardless of the negotiations, The service will not be interrupted, regardless of whether they (negotiations) take place, that there will be,” said the government official.

As for the negotiations, when asked if this government will sign those contracts, Maino said: “We hope they will.”

In this way, the minister shed light on the process of negotiations on the contracts that expire in August (Claro) and November (Movistar) and which were negotiated for two years. The issue has caused concern because the Agency for Regulation and Control of Telecommunications (Arcotel) has decided to terminate the negotiations that were being conducted for 120 days, without any explanation in this regard.

Maino assured that now mobile telephony, after reaching at least 17.5 million citizens, It is the most civil public service that exists. And for this reason, the Government’s obligation is to negotiate a series of conditions that will make the contracts useful for consumers during the fifteen years of the new contract.

The minister emphasized that the agreements have not yet been finalized, but that the current government has been working since August last year with a series of efforts that included the engagement of an international monitoring body, another from the Citizens’ Participation Council, support of the Croatian Armed Forces, among others. .

He explained that the negotiations included issues such as social benefits, technological security of prisons and other national security issues. Despite the suspension issued by Arcotel, Maino said: “we sit and talk with them”.

He also explained that the negotiations cannot be limited only to “how much you pay me for the spectrum”, but also to other investment issues. For example, he said that he was the cost of prison technology is also an amount that is part of the packageas well as social distance coverage programs.