📋 Tender Overview
Joint work will allow identifying localities that could access 4G services through the coverage fee mechanism.With the aim of reducing the digital divide in areas that are difficult to access, the Vice Minister of Communications, Raul Garcia Loli, led a working meeting with a delegation of mayors of the Vraem del Norte Municipal Association (Norvraem), in which alternatives were addressed to expand the coverage of mobile services and strengthen digital inclusion in towns and population centers of Junin and Ucayali.
During the meeting it was reported that the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) promotes, in coordination with the operating companies, the provision of telecommunications services in Norvraem localities; through the coverage fee mechanism, a sectoral tool that allows part of the income that companies pay for the use of the radio spectrum to be allocated to finance the expansion of mobile services in rural and remote areas of the country.
Within this framework, the Vice Minister of Communications announced that a field verification will be scheduled to identify the current situation, as well as which other localities can be served through this mechanism, in order to route technical solutions that allow expanding coverage.
Garcia Loli also highlighted that, currently, thanks to the AWS-3 band competition and the coverage fee mechanism itself, a total of 33 locations in this area of the country already have 4G mobile services; and another 32 appear on the list of coverage fees for 2026 that can be chosen by operators.
We take the requests of local authorities responsibly because we are sensitive to the situation of Vraem. To generate the deployment of infrastructure we work in an articulated manner with the private sector and with you, who are the authorities who directly know the reality of your territories, said the Vice Minister of Communications.
The Norvraem Municipal Association is made up of the districts of Rio Negro, Mazamari, Rio Tambo, Llaylla, Coviriali, Pampa Hermosa, Vizcatan del Ene, Pichanaqui, Pangoa, Tahuamanu and Sepahua, as well as the provinces of Satipo and Atalaya, in the regions of Junin and Ucayali.
