The Supreme Decree (DS) 4669, which prohibits telephone operating companies from deducting from the credit when the megabytes of internet browsing are finished, will benefit 90% of prepaid users and 9.3% of postpaid customers, reported this Saturday the Minister of Public Works, Édgar Montaño.
“This supreme decree benefits more than 90 percent of prepaid users and also benefits more than 9.34 percent that are postpaid lines,” said the head of that State portfolio at a press conference, which offered in the city of Santa Cruz.
According to the authority, currently, the user or owner of the telephone line buys a bag or package of megabytes to surf the Internet and when it is finished, the main credit is automatically consumed without their consent.
“(However) this Supreme Decree prohibits operators from passing from the data exchange to their main credit; that is to say, it will not automatically allow the operator to consume its main credit”, he emphasized.
He explained that the telephone operating companies were given a period of 180 days so that they can acquire the software and hardware required to adapt their systems, in accordance with the provisions of Supreme Decree 4669.
“Through the ATT we have given 60 days so that all these technical aspects can be regulated because obviously there is an urgent need and request from the Bolivian population who in the end claim that their megabytes would have disappeared and that they would not even have for a call”, he added.
The executive director of the Authority for the Regulation and Supervision of Telecommunications and Transportation (ATT), Néstor Ríos, explained on Friday that the price of megabytes, for Internet browsing, is up to 17 times more expensive, when there is no package. or bag of megabytes.
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