Expiring spectrum licences in the high-frequency 2.5 gigahertz band won’t be renewed by the Mexican government. Instead it will reclaim the bandwidth and auction licences to telcos.
The spectrum is suitable for deploying a 4G LTE network.
Mexico’s…
Expiring spectrum licences in the high-frequency 2.5 gigahertz band won’t be renewed by the Mexican government. Instead it will reclaim the bandwidth and auction licences to telcos.
The spectrum is suitable for deploying a 4G LTE network.
Mexico’s minister for communications Dionisio Perez-Jacome told press that current operators would be able to bid in the new auction but that the conditions attached to the licences would be new.
Mexico’s 2.5GHz band is significantly underused at the moment. There are 68 licences held by 11 operators, and 42 of them are in the possession of media conglomerate MVS Comunicaciones. MVS used to use the band for television but that was freed up when it moved to satellite TV.
Attempts MVS has made to build a network with the spectrum have fallen through.
The minister reportedly said that the government had been in discussions with MVS for five years in a bid to find a solution for the spectrum, but to no avail.
Some of the current licences expire as late as 2018.
