📋 Tender Overview
With the aim of collecting contributions that help make the best decision for the optimal use of the National Fiber Optic Dorsal Network RDNFO in the massification of broadband in the country the Ministry of Transport and Communications MTC brought together members of academia private sector civil society and professional associations.The workshop A national network to unite more involved different actors who shared their economic technical and legal approaches and assessments on the future of the backbone network.This workshop only confirms the challenge ahead. We have collected different approaches but we all agree that the decision adopted by the State on the fiber optic backbone network should privilege the connectivity of rural and more remote areas of the country said the Deputy Minister of Communications Patricia Carreo.The workshop joins a series of meetings held with different actors in the telecommunications sector such as former vice ministers World Bank experts consultants operators clients of the dorsal network Osiptel Proinversin among others in order to collect their comments on the report of the Working Group formed in 2022 which was made available to citizens in recent weeks.It should be noted that the RDNFO is temporarily under the operation of the National Telecommunications Program Pronatel since January 2022 after the termination of the contract with the operating company.The MTC has a work agenda with different actors in the telecommunications sector and in parallel coordinates with Proinversin some actions that allow defining the best applicable contractual modality to value the RDNFO.Likewise it seeks to determine a technical economic and legal alternative that allows the sustainable use of the entire fiber optic infrastructure.
