The convenience of the installation of a single Telecommunications Network to provide the Telephone and Internet services more than 25,000 homes in Juan Bosch City It is still questioned. While the trust that administers defends the model of tender claiming that it conforms to the order and ornament that is sought in the housing project, the providers insist that it will make the prices and quality that will reach the final consumer difficult.
One single Telecommunications Network implies that all sector companies They will share the same infrastructure, without directly guaranteeing the continuity of servicesthe maintenance or adoption of the appropriate technologies according to the investment plans of each company, the Association of Communication and Technology Companies alerted yesterday (Comctec).
“The problem is not that there is a neutral network; the thing is We should not be forced to use it“Robinson Peña, a member of the Comctec and representative of Claro Dominicana during a visit by the main executives of this guild to Free newspaper.
He explained that dependence on a single network could generate that a fault or failure compromises access to telephony and internet of everything Juan Bosch Citydifferent from when each company installs its own systems to provide the service to the users who choose them.
In addition, its installation would mean the eventual disqualification of all the services that the providers have been giving to some 7,000 homes since 2019before the public opened to the public tender national.
“We prefer to have control of our networks to do redundancies, to make equipment reviews, to maintain updates that are not only innovation, but the teams have obsolescence”Member of the Comctec and representative of Claro Dominicana.
A “badly precedent“
The executive director of ComctecClaudia García, considers that if the tender progress as a “badly precedent“that would violate the General Telecommunications Law No. 153-98 in terms of Technological neutralityguarantee of quality and continuity of the service to users.
“This lack of access (free) is a illegal overreach From the trust, because in no residential this type of barriers is made, “he lamented.
The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) supports the Comctec. Last June, he recommended to the trust for the construction of low -cost housing (VBC RD) the suspension of the tender For a “thorough review of the specifications “, after analyzing that the model raised generated a “considerable operational load“That exposed to the trust to technical and regulatory risks if it did not meet the required quality standards.
According to the specifications -impossible by the Comctec three times-, the tender seeks Award a single company as a “neutral operator” of the service for 12 yearsassuming all operating costs and being in charge of charging a rate of up to $ 12 for each user who hires the concessionaires who would share the network.
For the Comctecthis model generates “an unnecessary intermediary” that would increase services in a project that is called to be accessible to middle class families and low medium They live there.
Peña said that one of the greatest inconsistencies of the tender is that it intends the sharing of the active infrastructure of the network – such as its terminal equipment, the antennas and other components of the system that make it possible They even understand the true service they are granting to that neutral operator, “said Garcia, who considers that the tender has been done with ignorance of how the sector operates.
Order and ornament
The president of the VBC Trust, Camel Curi, says the tender is still ongoing because they have accepted the suggestions of the Indotel, adopting the model raisedeven “pleased” the claims of telecommunications companies through the three amendments that have been made to the specifications.
He said that 12 dollars They are only a maximum top for the bidders, but that the offers that propose a smaller rate, as well as the providers who ensure a price to users “equal to or less” to the existing market.
Curi indicated that the advantage of a single network is to avoid “The visual noise“From the wiring of several companies operating at the same time.
“What we want is An order in the city that is not in the rest of the population (…), there are a number of regulations that are part of having a national model territory. Or we allow that, or things open so that everyone does what they want, “he said.
Denied that the trust exceeds its functionssince it is the authority that owns the land and guarantor of the basic services, including that of telecommunications, with even management of their own resources, acquired by the sale of lots for housing and commercial lots.
“The trust is the owner of the territory (…), with all regulations and all security, “he said, after indicating that it is the same as any private housing project, but in this case of the State, and aimed at a low middle class.
Given the unsuccessful challenges that sought the adoption of the tender to more fair parameters for telecommunications companies, the Commission filed a resource to the General Directorate of Public Procurement (DGCP) last Thursday for the adoption of precautionary measures.
