Tuesday, July 19, 2016 President announces mobile phone planPresident Mauricio Macri yesterday trumpeted the government’s Federal Internet Plan, which would offer the sale of smartphones equipped with 4G connectivity to citizens to be purchased in 12 installments. Flanked by Communications Minister Oscar Aguad and Production Minister Francisco Cabrera, the president continued calling for greater frugcitizens for “austerity,” complaining about the artificial heating at the CCK. During a rally at the Kirchner Cultural Centre (CCK), Macri said the government’s goal is to “help more than eight million Argentines who were unable to move from second-generation (2G) cell phones to fourth-generation (4G) ones,” although he failed to provide specifics. “This place is not cold enough,” he said. Days earlier, he had argued that anyone who was wearing a T-shirt or barefoot at home during winter was wasting energy, prompting anger about past instances in which his family was seen doing just that in photos uploaded to social media platform Snapchat during Argentina’s participation at the Copa América soccer tournament.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 19, 2016 03:00 UTC