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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Short law for DTH to also make allow to tender Arsat spectrum

The director of the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (Enacom), Miguel de Godoy, told Convergencialatina that the law that enables to give digital television to telephone companies will include "infrastructure sharing and spectrum availability; it will be a short law with three or four articles at most". The official confirmed what was anticipated by the Modernization Minister, Andrés Ibarra: the spectrum to be tendered "in the fastest time possible" includes the 30 MHz in extended AWS held by Arsat and the 60 MHz that it recovered from Arlink. De Godoy explained that the regulations will modify the Law on the Development of the Satellite Industry that awarded this spectrum to the state operator.

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