Yesterday there was a meeting of the President with representatives of companies, in which they talked about future investments and also the role of the State in the communications sector. The companies represented are some of those that cannot complete their multiservice offer due to a lack of spectrum at the regional level that is essential for them to remain competitive, as they explained.

Convergencialatina was able to establish that the conversation was pleasant and did not refer to the situation or the elections.

Charly Joost Newbery, on behafe of Supercanal, Paulo Cosentino, of ICondor, Pablo Saubidet, of Iplan, and Franco Cecchini on behalf of Catip and Cabase, shared the talk with Mauricio Macri and the Deputy Chief of Government, Andrés Ibarra.

Since the acquisition of Supercanal, I-Condor is focused on an investment plan to update networks and technology to address new communications business based on the results of research from its own development center.

In the case of Iplan, it advances with fiber to the home in Buenos Aires with plans to cover 350,000 blocks at the end of 2020.

On behalf of the aforementioned chambers, Cecchini expressed the concern of SMEs and raised the need for effective competition, for which it is necessary to “break the oligopoly,” he said, and be able to compete in mobile services. The situation expressed was also in the interest of the other participating entrepreneurs. Macri recalled that they would have access to 20% of the spectrum that by the Presidential Decree DNU 58/19 was taken from Arsat and left to Enacom. Although there are doubts that spectrum is uploaded in the transition resulting from the outcome of the PASO.

(On the spectrum issue there is a deep analysis in Convergencia Telemática August edition).