At the II International Telecommunications Fair of Venezuela (Fitelven), the vice president of Works and Services, Jorge Márquez, assured that several telecommunications companies, including Movilnet, had started a pilot plan for testing 5G frequencies
On September 23, President Nicolás Maduro signed a bill authorizing the public offer to auction frequencies for the fifth generation of mobile networks, better known as 5G technology.
The document was presented by Jorge Márquez, vice president of the sector for Works and Services, during the live program With Maduro +This authorization would mean that private companies could choose to have spectrum to operate 5G connections.
At the II International Telecommunications Fair of Venezuela (Fitelven), held from Wednesday, September 18 to Saturday, September 21 at the Poliedro in Caracas, Márquez reported that he had sent the point of account to Maduro. In addition, he assured that several telecommunications companies, including Movilnet, had started a pilot plan for testing 5G frequencies.
Already in the first edition of Fitelven, held in November 2023, operators such as Movistar, Movilnet and Digitel presented projects to carry out 5G technology tests over the next few years.
During his program, Maduro assured that Venezuela was “reaching 4G” and that, with this 5G project, the country would be at the “technological vanguard of the world.” Despite the promise of better service with 5G technology, connectivity in Venezuela with less sophisticated networks still has low rates, according to the latest figures offered by the Government.
According to the latest report published by Conatelwhich dates back to the fourth quarter of 2022, only six states in the country (Carabobo, Aragua, Táchira, Miranda, Vargas and the Capital District) had a rate of telephone and Internet service users of more than 50% of their population density.
Likewise, a study carried out by the firm Consultants 21 In March 2024, it was revealed that 40% of those surveyed did not have Internet service in their homes, with the eastern region having the least access, with only 47% of the sample surveyed stating they had this service.
Jorge Rodriguez talks about Gonzalez Urrutia
During this broadcast of With Maduro +the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, was invited to speak about the document signed by the former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, according to which he would have recognized the sentence issued by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) and which validated the results of the presidential elections announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
There, he said that González Urrutia was the one who appointed the former deputy for the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) Eudoro González as his interlocutor for the negotiations of his exile to Spain.
*Read also: Who is Eudoro González and what role did he play in Edmundo González’s departure from the country?
He also said that a group of Venezuelan opposition members held a meeting in Madrid in which the former presidential candidate had expressed his intention to distance himself from the leader of Vente Venezuela, María Corina Machado, due to economic interests. However, he did not offer details or evidence of these statements.
On the other hand, he assured that he had material certifying that the “pressure” on González Urrutia to leave the country “did not come precisely from the Bolivarian Government.” However, he did not show the aforementioned material.
Former candidate Edmundo González Urrutia has maintained that he signed the recognition of the TSJ ruling due to coercion by high-ranking officials of the Venezuelan government. “While at the residence of the Spanish ambassador (in Caracas), the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, and the vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, showed up with a document that I would have to endorse to allow my departure from the country. In other words, either I signed or I would face the consequences,” the diplomat said in a video posted on his social networks.
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