BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—In a new chapter of the judicial battle taking place in Argentina to implement calling party pays (CPP) between cellular callers, companies have decided not to begin providing the service as planned (1 September). This change in plans comes as a result of a judge’s ruling that establishes it will not be implemented in the city of Buenos Aires until the court case initiated by the city’s ombudsman, Alicia Oliveira, is resolved. Since the operators’ computing systems have technical limitations that impede them from providing CPP without including Buenos Aires they decided to put off the implementation of the new system until they are able to provide it countrywide.
This is the second time implementation of CPP between cellular callers has been delayed. In May, the Secretariat of Communications cancelled its use four days after it began when the agency discovered irregularities in its application. On 31 July the government achieved certain modifications and endorsed its implementation. Now cellular operators along with the government have appealed the judge’s decision.
