📋 Tender Overview
The Private Investment Promotion Agency PROINVERSIN reported that four companies have pre-qualified as bidders in the Special Public Tender process for the award of the Radioelectric Spectrum Bands projects AWS-3 and 2.3 GHz which will improve the 4G mobile service telephony and internet nationwide.The companies that have prequalified as bidders are Telefnica del Per SAA Amrica Mvil Per SAC Entel Per SA and Viettel Per SACThe prequalified bidders will be able to present their offers at the award ceremony of the good pro scheduled for June 2023. That the four mobile telephone operators have prequalified as bidders is an indicator of confidence in our processes and in the investment opportunities offered our country highlighted the executive director of PROINVERSIN Jos Salardi.The AWS-3 and 2.3 GHz Radio Spectrum Bands projects promoted by PROINVERSIN on behalf of the Ministry of Transport and Communications MTC are very important for the country because they will allow a greater number of rural localities nationwide -which today they do not have services or they only have 2G or 3G services - they can improve and have 4G mobile services.Accessing in this way to have more information better quality of their communications and receive distance education services tele-education and tele-health which today are of vital importance.THE PROJECTSIn the current bidding process the AWS-3 Band is divided into two blocks Block A of 2x15 MHz and Block B of 2x15 MHz so that a bidder can present its offer for one or both blocks. For its part the 2.3 GHz Band maintains a single 30 MHz block.The allocation of said blocks will be defined in the act of good pro exclusively based on the offer made by the bidders of the rural localities where the 4G mobile service will be provided within a certain period Mandatory Investment Commitments.The execution of the Mandatory Investment Commitments of both projects will encourage investment in infrastructure in remote areas where there is no 4G mobile coverage thus contributing to reduce the gap in telecommunications and expanding the footprint of mobile operators in rural areas of the country.There are eight 8 types of localities that could benefit classified according to the difficulty of their access and current availability of infrastructure for the provision of mobile services. For the AWS-3 Band divided into two blocks there are 6280 locations for free selection divided into two bags and for the 2.3 GHz Band there is a pool of 1196 locations also for free selection.The duration of the concession of both AWS-3 and 2.3 GHz Bands will be 20 years.
