Users on social networks denounce that the companies providing public services Cantv, Corpoelec and PDVSA Gas increased their rates since January, which generates discomfort in the population due to the failures and poor quality of them. Inflation and devaluation impacts the income of Venezuelans to deal with these payments
So far and a half of the year 2025, Venezuelans have received the bad news of the increases in the rates of public services, specifically in telephony, gas in the bottle and electricity. Users claim that with the wages they charge, high inflation and the continuous increase in the official dollar, they are uphill to pay for the payment of these services.
Public Services providing companies Cantv, Corpoelec and PDVSA Gas have increased their rates since January, which generates discomfort in the population due to the failures and poor quality of them. The infrastructure of telecommunications, the state electricity and Petroleum sector of Venezuela require renewal and improvements, but the investments that are needed for it have not been executed.
“How electricity rates are going to be increasing if we every time we have blackouts,” said a user who preferred not to be identified and lives in the Mérida state.
«I was without the Internet since December and although the Cantv technicians came twice at the beginning of February to fix the breakdown, that was a momentary joy, because I have not had internet in my house again for three days. It is important that the optical fiber arrives at the urbanization where I live, because those cables are old and many of them even eaten by rats, ”said Josefina Campos from the Baruta municipality in Miranda.
Precisely in Miranda, although on another public service, the gas bombones rose in price, according to the information provided by those in charge of the distribution to the State communities. Through WhatsApp groups, spokesmen pointed out that The 10 kilograms bottle that cost 47 bolivars, now has a value of Bs 65; The 18 kg went from 81 to 115 bolivars and, the 43 kg of 149 to 225 bolivars.
Marino Torrealba stressed that the increase is not reflected in the quality of the service or the ease of buying the cylinders. «Many times I have run out of gas, because its distribution is slow. It has touched me with firewood or resorting to electric stoves. If we add to this how cumbersome the process to buy a bottle is, we conclude that the service is very bad », said.
He recalled that “in the times of the fourth republic” the company that supplied domestic gas was called and indicated the time and day they would take the bottle to the house. «The workers installed it, with the required security measures, but now you must connect it. How does an older adult, who live alone, or a person who does not handle this system, to install a cylinder? He wondered.
Social network users also denounced a disproportionate increase in electric rates by the National Electric Corporation (Corpoelec). Complaints became evident on February 6, when reviewing the January invoices.
«On Thursday, February 6, the electric power receipt came with an increase of 197%, compared to December and, the next day, they notify me that the gas also increased; However, we continue to win the same. It is time for the government to sincere salaries, ”said Josefina Duarte.
The minimum wage in Venezuela continues in the 130 bolivars, that is, $ 2.14 at the official exchange rate of 60.52 bolivars per dollar. While the Government delivers several bonds through the homeland system to public workers, retirees, pensioners and members of Misiones, however, these benefits do not reach the entire population.
Rosalía Moncada, inhabitant of Carrizal in Miranda, expressed his annoyance when he found that his bill went from Bs 430 in December to Bs 1,224.76 in January, an increase of 180%. “It is not possible for Corpoele to not notify this increase to take forecasts with time,” he said.
Social network users pointed out that, despite lower consumption, the amounts of the invoices had increased considerably. A subscriber mentioned the Additional cost of $ 20 per reconnection in case of suspension of the service due to lack of payment. Another user, absent from his home during January, questioned the logic of the increase considering that he only kept the fridge with connected protector, due to frequent blackouts.
In telecommunications
The National Anonymous Company of Venezuela (Cantv) published the new price of the installation of its Internet ABA Ultra by fiber optic service, which went from 9.99 to 10 dollars to the official exchange rate of the BCV. Although in currencies the increase was low, more bolivars should be allocated due to the increase of the dollar. For example, in June 2024 When the state company made the adjustment to $ 9.99, Bs 363.53 should be allocated, while now Bs 605,20 must be canceled.
The same goes for Internet plans that since January were set:
100/50 Mbps plan: 35 dollars versus $ 34.99.
The rest of the plans did not present increases in currencies, but prices in bolivars are impacted by the devaluation
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*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content is being published taking into account the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country
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