Tuesday, June 05, 2018

MVNO "assembled" model will create the fourth operator

The possible availability of a portion of the AWS spectrum that is currently held by the state-owned operator Arsat awakened some of the proposals from medium-sized players (SMEs, cable companies and cooperatives) to enter the mobile telephony market.

If Telecom-CV mega-merger buried the chimera of the "fourth operator", the announcement made by Minister Ibarra to make regional licenses available, reactivated the expectations of projects such as the one presented at the beginning of last year by Cabase, Catel and Catip. But that project does not have much potential. On the side of the players, due to the tenor of the investments – approximately US$500 million according to the own project of the chambers. And because beyond the government announcements, in Modernization there is no work being done to give a destination to the spectrum that would be available. They wait for the final text of the law to be approved by Congress before giving definitions.

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