Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Internet Day 2018

Cabase wants to add 1 million homes with FTTH and asks to reduce taxes

Ariel Graizer, president of the Argentine Chamber of Internet (Cabase) said that "we support the goal set by Minister Andrés Ibarra to connect 2 million homes in 2020. Cabase members committed to achieving at least one million of these new FTTH connections". During the opening event of the Internet Day, organized by Cabase, Graizer said they maintain the projects to provide mobile telephony, either with spectrum or as MVNO. And he demanded to all the levels of the State (Nation, provinces and municipalities) to reduce the administrative charges and rates to facilitate infrastructure deployment.

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