Intercable Network vice president, Lucio Gamaleri, yesterday asked that SMEs have a place in the discussion of policies that are coming for the sector. "We need to participate in another way because it is a historic opportunity and we do not want benefits," he said in a SMEs panel: Audiovisual Federalization and Inclusive Access of the ATVC International Conference.

He agreed with Marcelo Tulissi, from the Argentine Chamber of SME Cable Operators (Cacpy, in Spanish) on the “need” for a market with free prices and promotion of competition.

Gamaleri positively highlighted the line of subsidized loans from Banco Nación that the head of Enacom, Claudio Ambrosini, announced at the event on Tuesday, but assessed that under current conditions the loans are not for investment but "to survive."

The SME entrepreneur repeatedly questioned DNU 690 and asked for a place to "contribute" from SMEs to regulation. "We have no problems with competition," said the vice of the Red Intercables, who called for policies that encourage investment, resolve the tax burden that they consider discriminatory for local companies and favorable for OTTs.

Tulissi, from Cacpy, agreed on the request for a federal dialogue table "to resolve what we need according to company size and geographic location because it is not easy to generate a single policy."

He also called for "doing something to lower computer prices" within the framework of a comprehensive digital policy of national and provincial states.