Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Azteca begins hard way out of RDNFO while MTC structures new model

In December 2019, the Ministry of Transport and Communications received a proposal from the backbone network licensee to terminate the contract by mutual agreement. The Peruvian government's counterproposal includes multiple changes to Azteca's initial suggestion, amog them, on the review of multiple deployment failures.

At the beginning of 2020, Azteca's proposal was analyzed by the MTC, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the General Comptroller of the Republic and Osiptel, since all their opinions must be considered, as established in the procedure in the Law of Public-Private Partnerships. In the last six months, the process of analyzing this proposal was carried out, which included a counterproposal from the MTC -based on the suggestions gathered from all the entities mentioned-, which is currently under analysis by Azteca.

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