📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Transport and Communications MTC evaluates the best design for the rearrangement of the 3.5 GHz frequency band the most important for the deployment of 5G as well as for the tender for the aforementioned band that will allow operators to have more spectrum for the deployment of this technology.Although 5G services are being provided in Peru the objective is to promote their use by taking advantage of the radioelectric spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band. At the beginning of 2022 43 5G base stations had been implemented and by the end of the third quarter of In the same year there were 641 stations in eight cities of the country Lima and Callao ncash Arequipa Cusco Ica La Libertad Lambayeque and Piura.It is a challenge for Peru to achieve the optimal rearrangement of this band and carry out a competitive tender in such a way that it allows the 5G service to take off and expand for the benefit of the population said the Vice Minister of Communications Patricia Carreo.In this regard the MTC official said that technical work meetings are being held with the Supervisory Agency for private investment in Telecommunications OSIPTEL and the Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment Proinversin to collect their contributions in this design. Likewise the vice minister highlighted the effort of the sector to close the digital gap in 4G services for which the 2.3 Ghz and AWS-3 bands will be tendered in the following months. We are working focused on generating incentives for the development of telecommunications services with the objective of closing the digital gap which today prevents more than 85 of population centers from having access to 4G mobile Internet said Carreo.These statements were made during his presentation at the forum Wireless Technology Summit 2023 organized by 5G Americas whose main theme was 5G What to expect from new technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean
