A slow social internet tariff
Portugal is coming out of lockdown and an opportunity has been lost. But the social internet tariff will always be useful. The Government should therefore speed up the launch of the measure.
The social internet tariff is nearly, nearly ready to be presented. That is the message the Government keeps repeating. However, almost a year after it was announced, we still have no social internet tariff. How long does it take to make a law?
The measure was included in the Action Plan for the Digital Transition, published in April 2020 in the Diário da República. But it was in July that it gained media attention, when it was presented in Parliament by the then Secretary of State for Communications, Alberto Souto de Miranda.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 11 March 2021.