{"id":36736,"date":"2017-07-26T05:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=36736"},"modified":"2017-07-26T05:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T05:16:58","slug":"colombian-tribunal-fines-claro-movistar-over-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/colombian-tribunal-fines-claro-movistar-over-contract.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombian tribunal fines Claro, Movistar over contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Colombian tribunal fines Claro, Movistar over contract<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A Colombian tribunal on Tuesday ruled telephone companies Claro and Movistar must pay the government $1.55 billion for failing to meet contractual conditions for cellular services, a government official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">An arbitration court said the two companies failed to return installed networks and infrastructure as part of agreements to provide cellular phone service more than a decade ago, Luis Guillermo Velez, director of the government&#8217;s legal defense agency, told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Claro, a unit of Mexico&#8217;s America Movil must pay $1.02 billion, and Movistar, part of Spain&#8217;s Telefonica SA, has been fined $529.1 million, Velez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The fine is the biggest ever in favor of the state, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Original contracts signed in 1994 agreed that networks would be returned to the state in 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">New contracts were later drawn up eliminating the return of the networks, but were overruled by another legal authority that argued that the original contract could not be modified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">America Movil said on Tuesday it will seek legal advice on the issue. Movistar could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Colombia has more than 58.5 million subscribers to mobile telephony, of which 28.5 million are Claro customers and 13.5 million subscribe to Movistar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">source:-https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-colombia-telecoms-idUSKBN1AB077<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/colombian-tribunal-fines-claro-movistar-over-contract.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian tribunal fines Claro, Movistar over contract A Colombian tribunal on Tuesday ruled telephone companies Claro and Movistar must pay the government $1.55 billion for failing to meet contractual conditions for cellular services, a government official said. 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