Company: TCMFF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001104659-25-019133
Chunk: 88

Company: TELECOM ARGENTINA SA
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 88
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 or protocol through internet without any restrictions or discrimination. The LAD allows licensees of ICT Services to provide subscription broadcasting services through physical or radio-electric link, including this service within its regulatory scope.
Decree No. 690/20 - Amendment to the LAD - Controversy
On August 22, 2020, the PEN issued Decree No. 690/20 (“Decree No. 690/20”), which has been ratified by the Argentine Congress under Law No. 26,122 and has been regulated through ENACOM Resolutions No. 1,466/20 and 1,467/20, through which, among other issues:

●   declared ICT Services as well as access to telecommunications networks for and between licensees as “essential and strategic competition public services”, and empowered ENACOM to ensure accessibility;
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●   established that the prices of: (i) the essential and strategic competition public ICT Services, (ii) the prices of those services provided in accordance with the Universal Service and (iii)the prices of those services determined by ENACOM for public interest reasons, shall be regulated by ENACOM; and
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●   ENACOM established the price and characteristics of each service of the ICT’s PBU.
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The Company initiated legal proceedings before the Federal Court of Appeals on Administrative Litigation Matters challenging the constitutionality of Decree No. 690/20 and the aforementioned ENACOM Resolutions.
In this context, the Company sought a precautionary measure suspending the application of the aforementioned ENACOM regulations and Decree No. 690/20. On April 30, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeals for Administrative Matters decided by a majority to grant the requested injunction and ordered the suspension of the effects of Decree No. 690/20 and the ENACOM resolutions adopted pursuant thereto and their inapplicability to the Company. This injunction was initially granted for a period of six months and was extended for equal periods, the last extension being granted on February 20, 2024.
During 2022 and 2023, Chamber II of the Federal Court of Appeals on Administrative Litigation Matters confirmed the different instance resolutions.
During 2022 and 2023, PEN and ENACOM filed extraordinary appeals against the rulings favorable to the Company, which were denied by Chamber II of the Federal Administrative Court of Appeals.

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PART I - ITEM 4 INFORMATION ON THE