Monday, February 03, 2025

2025 started with a Federal Universal Service Fund that was dissolved but still in force and surrounded by questions

The regulator Enacom determined that the operators must continue to make the contribution, although they do not know how it will be used or which agency will receive it.

Those are the feelings gathered by Convergencia in conversations with industry stakeholders after the "Three Kings' gift" of Executive Decree 6/2025. After months of promises throughout 2024 to review the Universal Service Trust Fund (FFSU), the government decided to dissolve it on January 6 through the aforementioned decree. Days later, Enacom had to step in to reaffirm that licensees must continue making their contributions as they had been doing (Regulatory Resolution 3/2025).

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