Audiovisual Services Act, which will be sent to parliament in the coming hours and yesterday was distributed among the ministers, states that the phone companies can not exploit radio waves or television you. The government had decided to limit the income of Movistar and Claro in that market, but that way ANTEL dragged, also intended to provide TV service.
However, the bill that does not regulate agreed Observer Internet, as originally planned. Therefore, the state telephone may offer IPTV services, a distribution of audiovisual signals via broadband connections, which is the sole provider ANTEL.
article that cuts off the phone says “natural or legal persons who hold full or partial audiovisual media services may not be, in turn, total or partial owners of any permit, authorization or license to provide telecommunications services for telephone and data transmission. ” That was asked by Channel 12. Of all the channels adds can celebrate “marketing agreements with these service providers.” ANTEL already has an agreement with Channel 10 that. The law also established that such agreements must be “offered on equal terms to all concerned”.
sets the charging of a fee to the TV channels (see box) and prohibits satellite-TV providers today is the only DirecTV-have a television abierta.La initiative also created the concept of “group economic “to place limits on media concentration. The text warns that it may be authorized or licensed holders “those who, by themselves or through persons belonging to the same economic group, infringe the concentration limits imposed by” law.
That limit is three signals to radio or television for every natural or legal person. Those who exceed currently have five years to stop exploiting waves that exceed the limit.
According to a government source, it is expected that this clause is to be applied to any of the current permisarios.
The project also provides a time limit for the licenses. Will be provided for a period of 10 years for radio service and 15 for television. Renewals are granted for 10 years.
In the preamble of the Act places special emphasis on “significant change” in the form of grant and the nature of the right granted to the use of the airwaves passing the situation “precarious and revocable” current concessions system use and time-bound clearances and renewable. “The characteristics of the current authorizations, together with historical practice by allowing the transfer to the heirs in case of death of the owner, have become traded using licensed spectrum,” says the initiative.
to Argentina
astorismo last week warned it would not accept the media law was “to Argentina” and they would not vote to content regulation. The text that will end today ministers signing includes no content regulation rather than the allocation of electoral advertising minutes, 15 minutes a day for public welfare campaigns and the obligation of a percentage of national production.
The law, which will regulate only radio and television, set concepts to ensure freedom of speech and media publishing. “The power of the State to regulate broadcasting services must be understood in the context of its obligation to ensure, protect and promote the right to freedom of expression under conditions of equality and without discrimination”, says one of the items.
Domestic production
law, as reported by the weekly search Thursday in a preview of the text, requires 60% of national production to the open channels.
But it also requires pay TV providers have its own signal. They will have a term of one year for inclusion in its basic package. In the case of satellite services (DirecTV) signal production itself must be nacional.La law also creates the defender of the audience and forces the media to take and publish a code of ethics.
The initiative also regulates what is violence on television and what are the penalties for those who violate child protection zone, which runs from the time 6.00 to 22.00. Also limits advertising to children.
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