Why is the social tariff failing?
The social internet tariff is "well below the expectations" of the Government, which is looking into why the measure reaches only 0.06% of the people it first estimated. I offer a few clues.
The Government is disappointed with the social internet tariff. “It is well below initial expectations”, the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Administrative Modernisation, Mário Campolargo, lamented this week.
Why is it failing? The social internet tariff was created in the previous legislature to speed up the “digital transition” and promote the inclusion of the most disadvantaged. A year after it came into force, the numbers speak for themselves.
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AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 10 November 2022.