Last week?s provisional ruling by the Federal High Court (STJ) suspending the tariff increase granted by Anatel and determining it be linked to the IPCA index instead of the IGP-DI means financial difficulties for telcos that pay large amounts of interconnect rates such as Embratel, the incumbent long-distance carrier.
This is because the court stipulated a higher increase for interconnect rates than for the cost of long-distance calls to users. The result will be financial disequilibrium for long-distance carriers, say sources consulted by TELETIME News.
The court set an increase of 14.28% for the cost of a domestic call and 6.04% for international calls, while the interconnect rates Embratel will have to pay local carriers to terminate calls remain indexed to the IGP-DI.
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