📋 Tender Overview
In the last 21 years PROINVERSION promoted and awarded 39 telecommunications projects for more than US 5400 million which has improved the quality of life of millions of Peruvians through the deployment of infrastructure and the modernization of networks that facilitate the offer of new services with better quality and greater reach nationwide.Of the total awarded between 2002 and 2023 14 projects were through the Public-Private Partnership PPP modality with an investment amount of US 3664 million and 25 through Active Projects with an aggregate amount of investment and transactions of US 1753 million.A clear example of the positive impact of these awards is the expansion of the coverage of telecommunications services in the country. In 2015 78 of the Peruvian population living in provincial capitals had access to Mobile Internet while by 2022 this figure rose to 88. In addition in 2011 only 36 of the population used the Internet while by 2022 this figure would rise to 73 according to INEI figures.According to OSIPTEL mobile lines have maintained a sustained growth from 2.3 million mobile lines in 2002 to around 41 million in 2022 which coincides with the growth of investments in the sector. This has been possible thanks to the extension of the fiber optic infrastructure network in Peru comprising 13500 km of backbone network more than 30000 km of regional sections in addition to around 70000 km of networks of private operators.In these 21 years two important milestones have been achieved in the telecommunications sector with the intervention of PROINVERSIN and they were the following i the entry of the fourth mobile operator to the market with the award to Viettel of the 1900 MHz Band 2011 and ii the concession of the 700 MHz Band to the operators Claro Amrica Mvil Movistar Telefnica and Entel which allowed the arrival of 4G technology in Peru. Both bands were concessioned by PROINVERSIN and represented more than US 1000 million of investment for our country.It should be noted that the telecommunications sector contributes 5 of national production and between 2021 - 2022 it has presented a growth rate of 12 being a lever for the economic and social development of the country.UPCOMING PROJECTS In order to improve the 4G mobile service telephony and internet in urban and rural areas of the interior of Peru PROINVERSIN in coordination with the Ministry of Transport and Communications MTC promotes two Radio Spectrum Band Projects whose award is expected for June 2023.This is the AWS-3 Band which is divided into two blocks Block A of 2x15 MHz and Block B of 2x15 MHz so that a bidder can submit his bid for one or both blocks. For its part the 2.3 GHz Band maintains a single block of 30 MHz.The allocation of these blocks will be defined exclusively according to the offer made by the bidders of rural localities to be implemented within a certain period Mandatory Investment Commitments.In that sense the award of both Projects will allow a greater number of rural localities nationwide which today have only 2G or 3G services to also improve and have 4G mobile services and thus access more information improve the quality of their communications and receive distance education and telehealth services that are of vital importance today.
