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MinCom
assigns 55 WiMax licenses
Other Topics: WiMAX Networks India,
Motorola WiMAX Solutions,
WiMAX/Wi-Fi Solution
December 17, 2006
Colombia's communications ministry Mincomunicaciones (MinCom) has
assigned 55 departmental WiMax licenses for the 3.5GHz spectrum band,
MinCom said in a statement.
The ministry received 161 proposals from 24 companies on August 14 to
provide services in the country's 32 departments but has repeatedly
delayed announcing the winners and delivering the licenses, the date for
which was originally set as 15 working days after the proposals were
opened on August 17. |
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Cable operator Cable
Unión de Occidente received 19 licenses, operator Comcel, a unit of
América Móvil, received 13, while mobile carrier Avantel received seven,
Comunicaciones Satelitales de Colombia six, Cablecentro five, and Emcali
two, and operators Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de la Orinoquía,
Wireless Colombia and Servisatélite received one license each.
From the word go the auction was marred with controversy as several
competitors such as mobile carrier Avantel accused the country's
dominant mobile operator Comcel of delivering its proposal five minutes
late. The ministry said that Comcel's proposal was delivered on time.
"We expect that the operators that have been awarded the licenses to
offer wireless broadband service will allow the country to be better
communicated and to expand technologies across the country,"
communications minister María del Rosario Guerra said.
"The challenge is huge but I know that all of these operators will
immediately proceed to generate all the required infrastructure across
the country so that Colombia closes the digital divide that we have,"
she added. |
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