Telecommunications & Information Technology
The Bill of Law No. 79 of 2016, which established a new
regulatory framework for the telecommunications sector in Brazil,
was sanctioned without vetoes by President Jair Bolsonaro. The Law
No. 13,879 entered into force on October 4, 2019.
The new telecommunications framework allows the fixed telephone
concessionaires to adapt their agreements from a concession regime
to an authorization regime. This change of concession to
authorization must be requested by the concessionaire and it should
be approved by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency
(ANATEL). In return, concessionaires must, among other conditions,
make investment commitments to expand their fixed broadband
services, in special in areas without adequate competition for
these services in order to minimize gaps and inequalities between
Brazilian areas.
