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Womenwork on Colombiaas a telephone service operator in the country, and is now looking to break into the transformation towards the 5G technology. This after in December 2022, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MinTIC) has made the use of this spectrum available to operators.
According to resolution 4543 of December 21, 2022, the TIC Minhad made available to telecommunications operators in the country the possibility of expressing their interest in obtaining authorizations for the use of the spectrum of 5G technology in Colombia.
This with the aim of starting the operation and provision of land mobile services, the entity has highlighted the possible opening of the availability of different frequencies ranging from 10 MHz to 2.8 GHz and of which the entity has requested the interest of 3.5MHz and 26GHz.
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The radio spectrum It is the resource needed to deploy the infrastructure that supports the provision of various telecommunications services. This technology is crucial to be able to carry out daily activities, among which watch television, use the mobile phone, listen to the radio or use the Internet service.
Among the other advantages brought by the new generation of networks, we can highlight the access to applications linked to the use of emerging technologies such as internet of things, bigdata and the Artificial intelligence.
Faced with this, the operator Wom sent a letter to present its interest and participate in the auction of this spectrum. And until then. 5G technology not only means changes in telecommunications infrastructure and networks, it also enables the development of an entire ecosystem of platforms, services and content through innovation and entrepreneurship.
On the other hand, the entity has expressed its disagreement with the portability of the various services, since they assure that practices have been identified against the regulations that prevent users from exercising this right, such as the creation of loyalty checks and balances gifts that represent false debts to users.
Number portability is the possibility for the user to keep his telephone number without altering the quality and reliability, in the event of a change of telephone number. Telecommunications network and service provider. In which there is a request for change by the user and an acceptance or refusal by the provider.
“Given the fact that the actions deployed by large operators affect both consumers and small competitors, a clear situation of acts of unfair competition is generated, requiring the intervention and participation of Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (CIS) and the Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) in discussing and improving regulation,” they said of Wom.
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As mentioned, these practices are considered anti-competitive and violate Colombians’ right to free choice and number portability. And this because several companies in the sector have been sanctioned for these practices.
In these sanctions, the company Claro is added, because as part of its commercial strategy, a distortion of the figures has been generated from the Mobile number portability through fictional ports. There SCI verified the existence, which begins with the activation of prepaid lines in Movistar.
Similarly, the SIC sanctioned mobile service operators: Claro, Movistar, Tigo, ETB, Virgin Mobile, Móvil Éxito, Wom and Avantel for violation of the number portability regime. These penalties were issued for denying portability without providing sufficient evidence in which they amounted to a total of $6,495,000,000.
Finally, according to the data provided in the latest CRC report, 39.4 million portability operations have been recorded in Colombia since the implementation of this process. According to figures, in 2022 there were almost 13 million porting requests in the country, of which 8.8 million were completed and 4.1 million were rejected (32%), affecting a large number of Colombians who tried to change identities last year. operator.