📋 Tender Overview
More than 51 thousand citizens have accessed this service for the first time thanks to the full implementation of the 4G mobile infrastructure deployment. The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) reported that, as of July 2024, the total deployment of infrastructure for 4G mobile services has been achieved in 230 rural locations, which did not have the service, thanks to the coverage fee mechanism, corresponding to the year 2023.
This important infrastructure deployment benefited more than 51 thousand citizens who accessed 4G mobile services for the first time, in places where in many cases they had only 2G technology or no service at all.
In this administration, in order to enhance the results of the coverage fee, the regulatory framework was updated that allows operating companies to allocate up to 60% of the payment they would make for the use of the radio spectrum towards direct investments for the deployment of infrastructure for 4G mobile services (previously it was 40%), said the head of the MTC, Raul Perez Reyes.
In addition, he noted that the corresponding addenda have been signed to benefit another 425 localities under the same regime, which will benefit 68 thousand Peruvians; which will be implemented until the second quarter of next year.
Thanks to the commitments assumed in the current administration with the mobile operating companies, the localities that will have 4G mobile services were identified in Amazonas (17), Ancash (24), Apurimac (29), Arequipa (6), Ayacucho (21), Cajamarca (79), Cusco (47), Huancavelica (33), Huanuco (16), Ica (5), Junin (18), La Libertad (7), Lambayeque (18), Lima (15), Loreto (2), Madre de Dios (4), Pasco (2), Piura (30), Puno (30), San Martin (8), Tacna (7) and Ucayali (7).
This regulatory amendment allowed the government to increase its direct investment commitments from S/130 million in 2023 to S/174 million this year to deploy telecommunications infrastructure in population centers that do not currently have 4G services.
It should be noted that the coverage fee mechanism won the 2023 Business Creativities Award last November in the Management with Purpose - Social Impact (public sector) category, organized by the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).
