Molina said that it is unusual for Gurméndez to “sing praises and speak excitingly about something that will directly affect UTE.”
The union leader rejected the statements made by the head of the telecommunications company, who told El Observador that number portability is a “great driver of the market” and pointed out that he is in favor of “opening up competition for the fiber business as well.” optics”.
Faced with such statements, Molina affirmed that Gurméndez knows well that the numbers are not giving, and for that reason he said that “100 more or less 100 portings are nothing.”
“It is false that 100 portings more or less do not matter. They matter a lot. It is time for the real numbers of the impact of number portability to be shown and then we will talk about the present and the future of ANTEL”, requested Molina.
He questioned that the ANTEL authorities “play martingale with investment data and with the company’s annual balance sheet.”
into the gorge
The union leader regretted that the telecommunications company does not have any strategy. “If it continues like this, it is going towards the gorge, whose fall we are going to feel all Uruguayans, especially those who most need the State to support them.”
Molina expressed that the decisions that ANTEL has been taking “go in a very different direction from those that the Uruguayans need.”
“Why not start providing 5G technology? Why wait? It is only explained by the interest in making it easier for 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”, he indicated.
He added that Gurméndez sees competition in terms of fiber optics as good business, because he maintains that it is not ANTEL’s monopoly. “So we imagine what he must be thinking, how he begins to allow private parties to use our infrastructure, developed with the investment of all Uruguayans.”
On the other hand, Molina also asked Gurméndez “why not continue with PROCES, which allowed many officials to finish their studies and thus contribute better to the country and the company?”
“The current authorities have been giving ANTEL a very different course. They spend money on a foreign platform for training,” Molina questioned, adding: “We don’t know what country Gurméndez lives in or what world he is in, since ANTEL has been in competition since he was president of the company for the first time, back in the year 2002”.
“Gurméndez 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”, stated Molina.
