The President of the Single Telecommunications Union (Sutel), Gabriel Molina, criticized the president of Antel, Gabriel Gurméndez, and argued that “the numbers (of the company regarding number portability) are not giving” and that “it does not have any strategy.”
Gurmendez talked with The Observer last Saturdayhe referred to Antel’s latest balance sheet, which reached US$ 247 million in net income and attributed it to aoperating efficiency” derived from a “good administration”.
The president of the state telephone company spoke about several issues, such as the implementation of 5G technology in Uruguaythe strategy of arrival inside the companythe fiber optic expansion and the balance of number portability since its inception on January 12, 2022. It also announced that Antel will broadcast the 64 matches of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Molina responded to the chief through a statement entitled In which country does Gurméndez live? in which he argues that the numbers of number portability “do not they are giving”. “It would be good if the real numbers were presented to see the reality and not what the president of Antel proposes in his great imagination. As already reported by Sutel, they play martingale with investment data and with the company’s annual balance”, he pointed.
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Gabriel Molina, president of Sutel
“It is false that 100 carries more or less do not matter. They matter a lot. It is time to show the real numbers of the impact of number portability, with real data on the table and then we talk about the present and the future of Antel”, says the letter. According to the trade unionist, Antel “has no strategy” and goes “towards a gorge whose fall“All Uruguayans will feel it,”especially those who most need the state to support them”.
Molina understands that the decisions of the state telephone company “go in a very different direction” to what the Uruguayans they need. Along these lines, he maintained that the company decided not continue with the Program for the Completion of Secondary Studies (Proces).
The trade unionist argued that the current authorities “spend money on a foreign platform for training” and questioned “What will our colleagues who will not be able to access be left with? “Those expenses are not reported by Gurméndez and could have been used to invest in Antel. But they think and act very differently from the interests of the country, of the Uruguayans and the Uruguayans and that is demonstrated every day”, he pointed out.
Molina also criticized again that Antel has not yet implemented 5G technology and argued that this is explained “in the interest of facilitating multinational companies (Claro and Movistar) to continue growing at the expense of the weaknesses that Antel is beginning to show and the lack of strategy that we denounce”.
In the interview with The ObserverGurmendez affirmed that “technically” Antel does not have a monopoly on fiber optics and said that he personally is in favor of the competition is also open for business. In response, the president of Sutel denounced that “must be thinking” in “allow private parties to use” Antel’s infrastructure, “developed with the investment of all Uruguayans”.
“We do not know what country Gurméndez lives in or what world he is in, since Antel has been in competition since he was president of Antel for the first time back in 2002. From what we read in the published interview, he is more concerned with seeing how the multinationals will be than with how to make Antel grow, advance, develop and be at the service of the country, the Uruguayans and the UruguayansMolina concluded.
