Colombia. MinTIC published the study and the draft resolution that support the value of the single periodic consideration fee that network and service providers, and television service operators that are in the general authorization regime must contribute to the Single Fund for Information and Communications Technologies, FUTIC.
With this exercise, MinTIC seeks to balance the fund's income and the investments that must be made in the coming years in the sector, in order to close the digital divide and bring technologies to all Colombians.
The document published by MinTIC includes the investment plan of the Single Fund and its expected contribution to closing the digital divide; the projection of telecommunications markets; as well as the identification of the other sources of resources of futic. Likewise, it presents the update of the financial models that the National Government, through the National Planning Department, contracted in the period 2016 - 2017, incorporating the macroeconomic and macro sectoral changes of the last three years.
With these data, the proposed value of the single periodic consideration is technically supported in accordance with the terms provided for in the Law on modernization of the ICT Sector, sanctioned by President Iván Duque on July 25, 2019.
"With this study we show how the resources of the Single Fund for Information and Communications Technologies will be reinvested in the ICT sector to fulfill the mandate of Law 1978 of 2019: to focus investments to advance in the closing of the digital divide and bring Internet access to all Colombians, especially those who, due to their economic and geographical conditions, have not yet entered the digital environment," said the Deputy Minister of Connectivity and Digitalization, Iván Antonio Mantilla.
Those interested can make comments and suggestions to the document until next Friday, February 14, through the email [email protected]
See here for the support document
Study for the single periodic consideration rate
