{"id":3223,"date":"2026-04-30T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:17:59","slug":"retrocesos-en-el-horizonte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/2026\/04\/30\/retrocesos-en-el-horizonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Setbacks on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These past few weeks, various news reports in the media call on us to be alert about a possible scenario of setbacks for the coming years in communication policies from a convergent perspective in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcements and actions taken by the current administration in its first weeks, which constitute cause for concern, include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">The misguided statements of the new undersecretary of telecommunications focusing on the \u201cderegulation of the telecommunications industry to foster investment\u201d regardless of how this affects the sector\u2019s concentration, as another of her statements was that \u201cwith the existence of 1, 3, 4, 10 actors, for us, the most important thing is that it is a healthy, booming industry\u201d. This is a contradiction: how could an industry be healthy if it operates as an oligopoly? <br><br>In this regard, it is enough to remember that in 2018, the Supreme Court issued a historical ruling when it granted an appeal by Conadecus against the companies Entel, Movistar and Claro for their management of the 700 MHz (4G) band. The Court determined that the companies acted against free competition by hoarding this spectrum under conditions that exceeded the established limit of 60 MHz per operator and forced them to give up the excess spectrum. <br><br>The ruling also questioned the role of the Telecommunications Undersecretariat (SUBTEL) in this allocation, and even some experts saw in this a clear example of state capture by the interests of the sector\u2019s companies.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">The new administration\u2019s Comptroller\u2019s Office\u2019s withdrawal of Decrees N\u00b03 and N\u00b06 to implement the Internet as a Public Service Law (2024), arguing a \u201ctechnical and regulatory revision\u201d by SUBTEL. This action halts mandatory coverage in lagging regions and the regulation of telecommunications cooperatives, two fundamental aspects of these regulations. <br><br>At the time, we presented our critical observations to the law\u2019s shortcomings, but if these insufficient aspects have already been stopped, then the idea of the Internet as a public service remains, for now, in a purely declarative state. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon.\u00a0<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The incorporation of an article in the so-called \u201cMiscellaneous Law\u201d proposed by the current administration that allows the reproduction, adaptation and distribution of copyrighted works (text, images, sounds) without the need for authorization or payment to the creators. <br><br>This generated complaints not only from intellectual property rights management institutions such as the Chilean Society of Authors and Musical Performers (SCD) but also from groups of media owners such as ANP and ANATEL, opening a new front of conflict with both sectors. <br><br>An attempt to introduce this article into the legislation had already been made through the artificial intelligence bill submitted in 2024 by Gabriel Boric\u2019s administration, but during its discussion, it was modified and ultimately not approved. For this reason, the insistence on reincorporating it into an omnibus bill is striking. <em>popurr\u00ed<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Lastly, there is the news that the new Ministry of Finance proposed discontinuing the CNTV Fund for the 2027 budget. This has been a fund for the promotion of audiovisual production in Chile for 30 years, and it amounts to over 5 billion pesos for 2026. <br><br>Although this fund had already been questioned by the Budget Office last year due to a lack of impact indicators, questioning its results to introduce improvements so that it better fulfills its purpose and discontinuing a state public policy aimed at promoting audiovisual diversity in the country that includes not only nationwide works but also specific resources for local, regional and community projects is not the same. Hopefully, the recently appointed new president of the National Television Council can advocate for the importance of this initiative.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, in an already weak scenario in terms of institutional framework, legislation and public policy, clear threats of regression emerge regarding the independence of the telecommunications regulator, respect for the intellectual property of creators in general and communicators in particular, improvements in Internet access and strengthening of audiovisual diversity. This is a storm warning concerning the final form that these announcements and intentions of the current administration will adopt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Chiara S\u00e1ez, April 2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estas \u00faltimas semanas distintas noticias aparecidas en los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n nos llaman a estar alertas sobre un eventual escenario de retrocesos para los pr\u00f3ximos a\u00f1os en materia de pol\u00edticas de comunicaci\u00f3n desde una perspectiva convergente en el pa\u00eds. Entre los anuncios y acciones realizados por el actual gobierno en sus primeras semanas de instalaci\u00f3n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[400,399,165,171,57,397,398,216,182],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editoriales2","tag-anatel","tag-anp","tag-espectro","tag-inteligencia-artificial","tag-internet","tag-ley-miscelanea","tag-scd","tag-servicio-publico","tag-subtel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regulacionconvergente.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Editorial-2.png?fit=1080%2C566&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulacionconvergente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}