Friday, October 21, 2016

Tendering "clean" bands is as important as harmonization

For Convergencia Research, the lower economic growth regional contex, calls to reduce the time gap since the moment payment for spectrum is made and the time it starts being used, in order to ensure investment recovery and the social benefits brought by the adoption of the mobile broadband.

As important as spectrum harmonization, it is making tenders with the bands already clean; such was the recommendation made by Convergencia Research during its participation in the forum organized by 5G Americas on the last day of Futurecom 2016, which ended yesterday in Sao Paulo. Asked about the possible lack of harmonization of spectrum bands in Latin America, Mariana Rodríguez Zani, Convergencialatina and Convergencia Research director, said the region progressed enough in that area as to encourage scales in the ecosystem development.

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