Martha Suárez, director of the National Spectrum Agency (ANE), explained to Convergencialatina that the bidding process for spectrum at 700 MHz is advanced and will be finalized this year. The agency's plan is to continue bidding for the 600 MHz band in 2019 or, by 2020 at the latest. Suarez said that they also have 400 MHz in the 3.4-3.7 GHz band to be used To 5G. In addition, the NNA plans to make available to the mobile operators some 30 MHz remaining in the 2.5 GHz band, another 200 MHz in the 900 MHz band as well as frequencies in extended AWS.