Venezuela. To protect and benefit users of subscription television operators, the National Assembly of Venezuela is preparing a project that seeks to regulate this sector.
This was announced by the president of the Commission of People's Power and Media of the National Assembly, Dario Vivas, who stressed that the project has three basic aspects to have greater control over pay television.
Among them are: programming, the promotion of national content on subscription TV and the contractual relationship between the user and the company. But they will take into account other points, such as the complaints that regional channels have expressed for irregularities such as being excluded or having to pay for the dissemination of their signal and also complaints from users.
Obviously this project has begun to generate reactions against it. Venezuelan experts on the subject argue that one of the consequences could be the increase in the rate charged to subscribers if the charge of cable operators to regional channels for the use of broadband were eliminated.
Another criticism of the project is that the operators are not in charge of the contents that are broadcast on the channels, so they cannot interfere in the programs. And on the company-subscriber relationship, they maintain that this is rigorously monitored by Conatel with monthly audits.
The promoters of this bill in the National Assembly of Venezuela indicated that they will build on Brazil's experience on this issue.
