The automatic repayment obligation for fixed line users on 28-day bills has been frozen until the end of October. As a result, it will no longer launch in April, as originally planned. This was decided by the Regional Administrative Court ruling on the appeals presented by Vodafone and Wind and referring to the discussion on the merits.
The Administrative Court instead rejected with a final sentence the appeal against the Agcom resolution which established the return of fixed telephony to billing on a monthly basis. Moreover, the legislator has also intervened on the issue, which with last year's tax decree sanctioned the definitive stop to 28-day invoicing. By the end of the month, the Tar will also express its opinion on the appeals of Telecom and Fastweb.
For now, therefore, the court has accepted the appeal with which the companies requested, as a precautionary measure, to suspend the obligation to automatically reimburse bills issued since 23 June last, the date by which according to the Authority the operators would have Had to go back to bills over 30 days. The suspension is valid until the hearing on the merits scheduled for next October 31st.
The Regional Administrative Court, the decision reads, established "that the conditions exist for suspending the contested resolution in the part concerning the payment of the amounts corresponding to the fee for the number of days which, starting from 23 June 2017, have not been used by users in terms of service delivery due to the misalignment between the four-weekly billing cycle and the monthly billing cycle".
