Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Santos to end mandate without 700 MHz tender or Convergent Law

With two striving coalitions, the elections would be solved in the June ballot and the possibility of an alternation in power is growing. In this context, the government is not expected to advance in new processes to tender spectrum and Congress would delay the debate on the project to update the regulation of the sector.

The electoral process that will cover the first half of the year will slow down the main discussions and projects in the ICT sector. The presidential elections are scheduled for May but none of the candidates appears with chances to win in the first ballot, whereby it will be necessary to wait for the balotage, scheduled for June 17.

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