Company: TCMFF
Filing Date: 2025-05-19
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001104659-25-050264
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Company: TELECOM ARGENTINA SA
Filing Date: 2025-05-19
Form: 6-K
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 Discounted Rates for Services with Numbering 0611 and 0612 and (ii) Discounts
for Semi-Public Long-Distance Services, do not constitute Initial Indicative Universal Service Programs under Article 26, Exhibit III
of Decree No. 764/00, nor services involving a Universal Service under Article 2 of Decree No. 558/08, respectively. In
the opinion of TASA's legal counsel, the above listed resolutions are contrary to higher-ranking regulations, mainly Decrees No. 764/00
and 558/08 and the Universal Service Regulations approved by them. Therefore, the legal opinion given to TASA is that these Resolutions
are illegitimate and arbitrary, and that same may be challenged through the appropriate legal channels, as provided by Law 19,549 on Administrative
Procedures, given that TASA has strong arguments to support such challenges and to obtain a final decision on the substance of the matter,
in the sense that the programs reported by TASA constitute Initial Indicative Programs. In this regard, TASA has administratively appealed
each of these Resolutions. These reconsideration appeals were rejected by the ENACOM - in its capacity as the successor to the former
Secretariat of Communications - and the records were submitted to the higher authorities for resolution of the appeals filed in the alternative.
These services represent the total of the credit indicated in the affidavits submitted to the CNC (now ENACOM), as mentioned above.

It should be considered that Argentina’s
Digital Law specifically introduces new provisions relating to the Universal Service and the Universal Service Fiduciary Fund in Title
IV, Chapters I and II. On May 31, 2016, ENACOM Resolution No. 2,642/16 was published in the Official Gazette, which issued new
Universal Service Regulations, replacing the regulations approved by Decree No. 558/08. The new Regulations set forth that the ENACOM
will review Universal Service programs and the procedure for their allocation, but does not refer to the existing programs at the time
of its issuance.

On July 3, 2020, the ENACOM issued Resolution
No. 721/2020, replacing the Universal Service Regulations approved by ENACOM Resolution No. 2642/2016 by new regulations approved
as an exhibit thereto.

Although the new Universal Service Regulations
replace the regulations approved by Decree No. 558/08, the Decree remains in