Anacom says unaware action Deco on DTT and recalls that were partners – Daily News – Lisbon

 The Communications Authority (Anacom) told Lusa agency that only today
 morning, and through the media, was intended Knowledge
  Deco to bring an action for damages to consumers related
 with DTT.
 
 
 
 

According to a spokesman for the regulator of communications, Anacom is not aware of the action or of the grounds, and only later can take a concrete position, but recalled that the two authorities were partners in the clarification of the population.

the DECO has announced it will bring today a lawsuit against Anacom to ask for compensation of 42 million euros for the damage caused to consumers with analog TV switch to digital terrestrial (DTT).

under the law, the regulator was responsible for planning, directing, monitoring, supervising and monitoring the migration to DTT, while still ensuring the conditions of continuity of signal reception .

“in all, Anacom has failed,” he told Lusa Ana Tapadinhas, Deco, realizing a varied list regulator failures that led to this action that will be delivered today in the circle of administrative court Lisbon on behalf of injured television consumers.

“we had no idea that this was happening,” advanced to the Lusa spokeswoman Anacom, noting that Deco was a partner of the Communications Authority in sessions population of clarification to help the system migration.

the agreement was announced in November 2011 and aimed to answer questions relating to migration to DTT in 100 sessions across the country.

last February, the Defense association of Consumer presented a study that pointed out deficiencies in information and monitoring made by the governor, noting that 62% of homes with DTT had signal reception problems.

Two months later, the vice president of Anacom rejected the accusations, saying that “if the communication actions were not successful,” would have to ask the Deco where does this failed.

to Defense association of Consumers, however, was the Anacom failed, as underlined responsible Ana Tapadinhas, stating that only in August, received 1,800 complaints because of DTT.

the damages claimed in court intends to reimburse spending on equipment and televisions that have proved useless, poor service quality, frustrated by the lack of information and cumbersome due to lack of adequate television broadcast signal, he said.

with regard to a collective action brought by DECO on behalf of aggrieved consumers, potential beneficiaries of the 42 million are not only members of DECO, but all Freeview consumers of television, leaving the judge to determine ways to compensate for these consumers.

Among the failures of Anacom described in the lawsuit are insufficient measurements of the signal prior to its shutdown and the concentration of all these measurements on the coast, neglecting the people of the interior and autonomous regions.