The workers organized in SUTEL issued a declaration in which they reject in all its terms the announcement made by the government to authorize the cable companies Nuevo Siglo, TCC, Monte Cable, Praimar and Korfield to sell Internet service.
From SUTEL they consider that the decision of the Executive, which they describe as “dangerous”, is part of a process promoted by the current administration through which it seeks to “dismantle the public company by attacking the monopoly that until now belonged to ANTEL” .
Assault on the sovereignty of the country
The union of the telecommunications company affirms, once again, that these measures, in line with a neoliberal and privatizing model, “do nothing more than deliver the patrimony of Uruguayans to a few families and assault the country’s sovereignty.”
They warn, at the same time, that the resolution of the Presidency of the Republic creates a precedent “so serious that it will enable multinationals to also compete with the public company in a service that generates revenue for ANTEL in the order of 400 million dollars a year and compromises universal access to telecommunications.
The union of the state company affirms that the announcement made by the coalition government is part of a process that at the time was carried out by the workers who have questioned the draft Media Law, which enables the Executive to “hand over sovereignty, violates the ANTEL’s existing monopoly and further concentrates the media, making it possible for it to be foreignized”.
In this sense, SUTEL is in a permanent session analyzing the steps to be taken to prevent “continuation of these destructive policies promoted by the government administration.”
