Telephone customers are paying up to R$ 1.8 billion more per year in bills due to the amounts charged to telecoms by energy distributors, who rent their poles for the passage of cables.
The difference in values is the subject of a dispute between the electricity and telecommunications sectors that took shape this year with the implementation of 5G, which brought more companies to the market – which will lead to the installation of cables on poles. Without a solution, the case could end up in court.
Faced with the heavy investments to be made, operators want to adjust these costs that burden telephony consumers in exchange for a reduction in energy consumers’ bills.
Today, the average annual amount paid by telephony consumers to distributors reaches R$ 3 billion. A study carried out by the consultancy LCA at the request of Conéxis, the association of telephone operators, shows that the fair value (corresponding to costs) would be R$ 1.2 billion. The difference is the extra amount being paid.
In their defense, the telecoms claim that it no longer makes sense for the rental of poles to be done as a profitable business and ask Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency) to charge a cost value for the use of the distributors’ infrastructure.
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