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Subtel amends telecoms law in Chile, starts to inspect ISPs

by Roberta Prescott
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Chilean telecoms regulator Subtel has made amendments to the General Telecommunications Law passed by Congress so that from now own Internet service providers (ISPs) are prohibited to block arbitrary applications, services and Internet content, and companies have to be transparent to users about trading conditions in their plans.

These changes are part of Net Neutrality Act, which establish the rights of Internet users to know clearly the technical and commercial conditions of broadband plans offered in the market. Operators cannot establish arbitrary or discriminatory procedures for blocking access to services, content and applications available on the network.

Subtel has announced that, due to this new framework, the Department of Telecommunications began a thorough inspection of Internet companies and their broadband plans to verify full compliance with the provisions set out in the regulation, particularly in regard to the information that end users receive.

Along with this, ISPs were instructed to send the contracts associated with Internet plans that are traded on the market today to the government for review to see if they comply with the Neutrality and Consumer Law.

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.