Arcotel and Senatel investigate Televicentro´s authorization

The Telecommunications minister, Augusto Espín, indicated that the frequence that is occupied by the channel Televicentro, channel five in the capital, could be retired.

On a tv interview, Espín explained yesterday that “channel 5 (RTS in Quito) authorized one repeater in Guayaquil and channel 4 (also RTS) in Guayaquil authorized one repeater in Quito; and what should be happening is that channel 5 repeats that signal in the repeater that was authorized. If that is not happening, actually it is a topic that is being investigated by Supertel (Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones), it is then a motive to retire the frequence immediately.