📋 Tender Overview
With an important participation of users and representatives of the operating companies the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications OSIPTEL held decentralized public hearings in four regions of Peru to collect comments on the draft resolutions that establish the maximum rates for internet access and internet transport services. corresponding to the Regional Broadband and Integral Connectivity Projects.In the hearings which were held virtually in Lima Lambayeque Ayacucho and Huancavelica interested parties were summoned to verbally express their comments regarding the aforementioned projects.During his participation the coordinator of Economic Research of OSIPTEL Ruben Guardamino Baskovich explained that the Regional Projects which are part of a policy designed by the Peruvian State seek the connectivity of 21 regions of the country with more than 7 thousand localities through a fiber optic transport network that allows to provide internet service and that it would have more than 3.6 million beneficiaries in its design. He said that in these projects there are two regulated services internet transport to transport internet signals and internet access to end customers.To date the Regional Projects of Apurimac Ayacucho Huancavelica Cusco Lambayeque Lima Moquegua and Tacna are in operation. In addition 10 projects remain in the implementation stage and Tumbes Piura and Cajamarca are in the process of reformulation.Guardamino recalled that for the internet access service in 2018 cost-oriented ceiling rates were established applicable only to the Compulsory Paid Institutions IAO which had the first review. For the rest of public institutions and households the supervised regime was established as requested by the MTC in 2014. It was also agreed that these cap rates should be reviewed and evaluated every three years so the regulator convened these decentralized public hearings.According to OSIPTEL the tariff regulation must be extended in all public entities as requested by the MTC applying differentiated rates for the projects of Apurmac Ayacucho and Huancavelica since the projects have had more than a year of operation and have complete information on the levels of operating expenses. Regarding the internet transport service a benchmarking methodology is suggested considering the information on the rates of the carrier service at the national level.
