Friday, July 1, 2011

Understand the popular broadband Telefonica

The popular broadband will come out, more or less following the guidelines of the government to bring a Mega connections affordable price. To avoid confusion, I spoke with representatives of Telefonica on the offers that the company will for the consumer - be it in Sao Paulo or in other states of the federation - in 90 days.


Popular broadband will be offered jointly by the Telefónica Group
As I explained, Telefonica will attack the problem of universal access to internet through two fronts: the conventional broadband (which has been called a flat), thanks to Speedy, and Vivo, which is now owned company .

In a hypothetical situation, the consumer interested in popular broadband to call the central sales Telefonica will have to answer the following question: "you already own or want to hire the telephone service?".

If the answer is no, he should hire the popular broadband mobile. Vivo will provide the service for $ 29.90 per month. The subscriber is entitled to 1 Mbps connection, with a monthly allowance of 150 MB - very little I know.

If the answer is yes, the company will offer an "alternative plan" with a fixed monthly fee of $ 65. Of this total, R $ 35 are related to broadband wired, also with 1 Mbps connection, and monthly allowance of $ 35.

Although guidelines PNBL say the sale of bundled services is prohibited, both the phone and the Ministry of Communications, both consulted by TB, they maintain that the "alternative plan" does not violate this principle because the client will always have the bandwidth of the Living available for less than $ 30 a month (10 cents less).

Like Hi, the company will slow down the connection when the monthly limit is reached. Telefonica reports that the minimum speed for these cases (which tend to be quite frequent) has not been defined, nor whether the company will charge a fee to maintain speed over the first Mega.