Argentina. Arsat will launch Multipoint Point Internet Transportation to benefit small internet providers across the country. This is the next product that Arsat will offer in its portfolio in order to mainly favor smaller companies.
This was stated by Rodrigo de Loredo, president of Arsat, in Córdoba during his presentation at the NPlay event that was held at the Congress and Convention Center Infiniti Building of the Quorum Córdoba Hotel.
A year after assuming the leadership of Arsat, Rodrigo de Loredo said that "we have connected 184 locations of the 1300 that we have as a horizon within the framework of the Federal Internet Plan. When we took office we only had 17 connected localities and 6,500 km used of the 32,000 km we had deployed; today we have 18,500 km of illuminated fiber."
Likewise, de Loredo stressed that "we lowered the average price of the mega IP transport wholesaler in the interior of the country by 50%. When we assume the management of this company we also assume a commitment to the public sense of it. That is why we propose to reach the benefit of broadband to the greatest number of people on equal terms."
In this context, the president of ARSAT anticipated that the state company will offer an ISP (Internet Service Provider) business opportunity for cooperative members and local entrepreneurs. This is the Multipoint Point Internet Transport, one more service that will allow access to broadband in conditions of quality and price similar to large cities to reach the ISPs that provide services in localities of 3000 inhabitants connected to the PFI, but that today are contracting the bandwidth from a concentrating locality.
"Today many of these ISPs are hiring the service in those localities and working in localities of less than 3000 inhabitants through radio link. We are going to offer them the transport from the locality where they contract to the locality where the service is provided via Capa 2 VLAN. To do this, they must comply with the following clauses: they must hire ARSAT, their locality must have less than 3000 inhabitants and be included in the Federal Internet Plan and must be less than 80 kilometers from the concentrating localities, "explained Rodrigo de Loredo.
On the other hand, de Loredo stressed that "we are connecting 2000 rural schools to satellite internet together with the Ministry of Education. So far this year we have already connected 36 in the provinces of Jujuy and Corrientes, we will connect 300 until April and by the end of the year we will connect another 1700 in the northern and central provinces of the country. "
In the same way, De Loredo warned that in all cases these are schools that do not have the arrival of any terrestrial network, that is, there is no way for them to access the internet if it is not satellite. "The plan contemplates the Internet connection via ARSAT-2 and the download of digital public content through ARSAT-1 digital satellite television," added the president of ARSAT.
Likewise, during his talk Loredo assured that in 2017 ARSAT will turn on 15 Digital Television antennas throughout the country. A hundred localities distributed in 10 Argentine provinces will be able to enjoy the Digital Public Contents of digital television open for the first time. This is an important objective assumed this year that complements the one developed by Hernán Lombardi, head of the Federal System of Public Media, the other leg of open digital television.
At the conclusion of 2016, the head of the state telecommunications company indicated that "in 2016 we managed to have a positive result of 80 million pesos. The company had revenues of 1004 million and expenses of 924, so we had that result that may seem small, but it is evidence that the path we decided when establishing a management model and that we carry out every day is the right one. "
Rodrigo de Loredo pointed out that "today we are reaching 80% of its occupied capacity of the ARSAT-2 satellite and thanks to this ARSAT does not require contributions from the national treasury to be financed. While we managed to obtain the landing permits needed to offer satellite services to the United States, Canada and Paraguay, we will continue to work to complete the full capacity of the satellite. We also add the resources of the Universal Service Fund that were idle all the past decade to finance the Federal Internet Plan."
