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Royalty payments of the telephone companies would only fall on Claro

The first debate of the Telecommunications Law, which concluded on Tuesday November 11, focused its discussion on two topics: new royalties of the telephone companies and the creation of a new regulatory agency that would replace the Superintendency of Telecommunications...
Posted On 12 Nov 2014
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Ecuador will have a broadband like the developed countries

The Vice President Jorge Glas, along with the Minister of Telecommunications Augusto Espín and the Telconet Manager Tomisval Topic, unveiled the project’s progress of the subsidiary Cable Andino. According to Topic, this will revolutionize the connectivity a...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Palestinian citizen is killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

A young Palestinian man was killed this Tuesday by Israeli soldiers in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, in clashes that raise fears of a return of the great Palestinian uprisings. Jawabreh Imad, 22, died after being shot in the chest, according to security sources and...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Entry of Russian weapons in Ukraine worries Poroshenko and the US

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and US Vice President Joe Biden today expressed their concern about the entry of heavy weapons in Ukraine from Russia, destined for rebel areas. The alarm was given yesterday by the OSCE mission in Ukraine, which reported the presence...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Mas asks promptly to Rajoy for negotiate date of official independence consultation

The President of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Artur Mas, warned yesterday that the Spanish president, Mariano Rajoy must accelerate talks to set the date of the official referendum with the aim of independence from Spain. Mas assured that elections in key plebiscitary...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Fees for electronic goods between US and China will be reduced

China and the United States agreed today to cut tariffs on electronic goods under a Treaty of Information Technology (ITA, for its acronym in English), which had stalled eighteen months. This was announced today by President Barack Obama, who assists in Beijing to attend the...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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CC pronounces on Twitter about the constitutional amendments

Under the motto “Do not fall into the social fraud,” the Constitutional Court (CC) promotes on its Twitter account several constitutional amendments proposed by Alianza PAIS (AP), in which a favorable opinion was ruled, except for protective action a few days ago. The...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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There will be 4 holiday days on the New Year´s eve, according to presidential decree

The Ministry of Tourism recalled the proximity of the Christmas and New Year´s eve after posting that these dates will bring several free days for citizenship. The general rule was established in 2012 by decree No. 1162 of President Rafael Correa. So at Christmas will be the...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Ecuador and Haiti extend their bilateral cooperation to other areas

The Haiti President’s visit to Quito, Michel Joseph Martelly, served for Ecuador to ratify its cooperation with the Caribbean island. The Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said that such collaboration exceeds $ 20 million. These resources, said the official, were used after...
Posted On 11 Nov 2014
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Catalans approved their independence with a support of 80% in the consultation

A total of 1’977.531 Catalans, of 5.4 millions who were summoned, voted yesterday in early hours of the “participatory process” on the independence of Catalonia, according to sources of the regional government. The vote of support for independence was 80.7%...
Posted On 10 Nov 2014
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