Company: TCMFF
Filing Date: 2025-05-19
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001104659-25-050264
Chunk: 113

Company: TELECOM ARGENTINA SA
Filing Date: 2025-05-19
Form: 6-K
Chunk 113
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 force regarding the obligation of the Regulatory Authority
to determine, in connection to the obligations arising from Decree No. 764/00, those that have been fulfilled and their amounts,
as well as those that have not yet been fulfilled, as well as the obligation to determine which services that differ from those established
by Decree No. 764/00, provided by the licensees, are Universal Service programs and, consequently, must be recognized and continue
to be performed.

Prices and Rates

Decree No. 764/00 on the deregulation of
telecommunications services set forth that service providers may freely set the rates and/or prices of the services provided for objective
customer categories, which must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. However, in the absence of effective competition, historical
providers abide by the maximum rates established in the General Tariff Structure. Providers may freely set their rates below the values
indicated in the General Tariff Structure. To determine the existence of effective competition, interested historical providers must prove
to the Regulatory Authority that one or more other providers of the same service have reached 20% of the total revenues of such service
in the local area of the basic voice service in question. Additionally, in the case of national and international long-distance services,
it can be considered that there is effective competition if the provider can be selected by dialing among more than two providers offering
more than one destination.

For areas and services where effective competition
has not been established, rate agreements have established that the maximum pulse rate be expressed in U.S. dollars, also granting TASA,
a company now merged with TMA, the right to adjust it on April 1 and October 1 of each year based on the variation of the CPI
of the United States of America. However, Public Emergency and Exchange Regime Reform Law No. 25.561, dated January 6, 2002,
set forth that in contracts entered into by public administrations under public law regulations, including public service contracts, all
indexation clauses based on foreign price indexes and any other indexation mechanisms would become void. This law also stipulated that
the prices and rates resulting from such clauses be set in pesos at the exchange rate of one peso per U.S. dollar ($1 = US$1). Furthermore,
it authorized the Executive Branch to renegotiate the aforementioned contracts, taking public services into account. This law has been
subject to successive extensions since its enactment.

On February 15, 200