Company: TCMFF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001104659-25-019133
Chunk: 271

Company: TELECOM ARGENTINA SA
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 18
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 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;
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●   ENACOM established the price and characteristics of each service of the ICT’s PBU;
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The PEN issued Emergency Decree No. 302/24, published in the Official Gazette on April 9, 2024, whereby it repealed Decree No. 690/20. In addition, said Emergency Decree amended Articles 48 and 54 of the LAD, providing that the licensees of ICT Services shall set their prices, which shall have to be fair and reasonable, cover the exploitation costs and tend towards the efficient supply and a reasonable operation margin. It also provided that the Basic Telephony Service shall continue to be considered a public service.
On June 25, 2024, through Resolution No. 13/2024, the ENACOM repealed Resolution No. 1,466/20, along with all amendments to that resolution.
Prior to the enactment of Decree No. 302/24, which repealed Decree No. 690/20, the Company had filed a claim challenging the constitutionality of Decree No. 690/20 and ENACOM Resolutions Nos. 1,466/20 and 1,467/20 issued in relation thereto. In this sense, on April 30, 2021, the Court of Appeals on Federal Administrative Matters granted the injunction requested by the Company, ordering the suspension of the application of the above-mentioned ENACOM Resolutions and of Emergency Decree No. 690/20. Said injunction was extended until August 20, 2024.

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On the other hand, on June 19, 2024, the Company was notified of the decision rendered by Chamber II of the Court of Appeals on Federal Administrative Matters, whereby said Court (i) dismissed the grounds raised by the PEN and the appeals filed by the ENACOM against the decision rendered by Federal Court on Administrative Litigation Matters No. 8 dated November 17