The Government is committed to lower taxes on telecommunications operators, at least with regard to the 5G deployment that they will face in the coming months, as stated in the details of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
As El MUNDO can anticipate, the Executive "proposes the temporary reduction to telecommunications operators of those
tax charges related to the spectrum
in order for these companies to maximize the economic resources available for investment and acceleration of 5G deployment."
In other words, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has met a practically historical demand from a sector with a deflationary tendency that has been complaining that, in addition to seeing its income reduced year after year, it will soon assume millionaire investments.
The disbursement will serve to build the networks that will support the new generation of mobile communications.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation indicates to this newspaper that at the moment it is only an idea to be specified, but the turnaround is obvious if operators such as Telefónica, Orange, Vodafone or MásMóvil are asked, pending their takeover bid on the Euskaltel as a whole.
This "reduction of deployment charges" pointed out by the Executive would materialize in that "
in the next two years the tax burden on operators will be reduced
so that resources are allocated to new investments, encouraging and accelerating the deployment of 5G networks."
These two years correspond to the immediate investment period linked to the first injection of European funds (NextGenEU), but they also coincide with the pending legislature of the coalition government led by Sánchez.
The claim that taxes be softened for telecommunications has been repeatedly made explicit by
José María Álvarez-Pallete, CEO of Telefónica
, who maintains a fluid relationship with the socialist leader in the Government.
"We must act immediately on the regulation systems," Álvarez-Pallete launched last September at the Trend Forum, referring to the alleged advantages of some rival companies, from digital companies such as Google to mobile virtual operators (MVNOs) that are They serve as the infrastructures built by the main telecos.
According to the president of Telefónica, this conduct takes place "at the cost of weakening those who have a firm investment commitment, seriously undermining their ability to lead the digitization of society and therefore harming it."
A life preserver for 40 years
This move by the Government represents, in just over a week, its second gesture of support for the large telecommunications operators. The Executive helped them last Tuesday with the approval in the Council of Ministers of a Decree Law that doubles the next spectrum concessions, from 20 to 40 years of duration.
The Department headed by Minister and Second Vice President Nadia Calviño "recognizes the need to promote sustainable investment in the development of high capacity electronic communications networks and incorporates the extension of the concession term as a way to
guarantee stability to operators, predictability and an adequate return on the investments made,
"as officially stated.
The change is fundamental and immediately prior to the 700 MHz band auction that will take place before the summer and that will finish defining the spectrum.
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