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The General Administration of the State may manage or intervene in "electronic communications networks and services in certain exceptional cases that may affect public order." In other words: it will be able to intervene in operator networks - something that already happened - and now also in messaging applications such as WhatsApp. It is a power that the Government reserves for situations of "exceptional and transitory nature." It does so through article 4.6 of the draft of the new Telecommunications Law , which has been available for public consultation since September 11, when the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation brought it out for hearing. Vozpópuli rescues the text in an article this Wednesday.
Read more: WhatsApp or Telegram will be considered 'operators' and will have to pay a fee if they exceed a minimum income, according to the draft of the new Telecommunications Law Specifically, the Government warns that this "exceptional and transitory power of direct management or intervention" could affect "any infrastructure" or "associated resource", and that it Lithuania Mobile Number List may be exercised with respect to "providers of interpersonal communications services independent of the numbering "—apps like WhatsApp, Messenger or Telegram—. In the latter cases, the network can only be intervened when these services "have been assigned the obligation to transmit public alerts in the event of major catastrophes or imminent emergencies in progress.
Paco Pérez Bes, partner of Digital Law at Ecix Group, warns, consulted by Vozpópuli , that the wording of the new Law could generate controversy and give rise to problems of interpretation. "What is an exceptional situation and where does the transitory end?" he asks himself. The draft General Telecommunications Law already surprised many two weeks ago when it became known that interpersonal communication networks "independent of numbering" would be considered as operators. Read more: Spain faces the pending task of extending teleworking: what can be learned from the Finnish model, European leader in digital competitiveness In this way, applications such as WhatsApp or Messenger - whose owner is Facebook - or Telegram would have to register in a registry of operators, which until now was managed by the National Market and Competition Commission (CNMC) and which by virtue of this new law will become dependent on the Ministry of Economic Affairs.