Triple-play provider Totalplay is considering taking part in Mexico’s planned shared network project, its CEO Eduardo Kuri said.
The company, which is owned by Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas, wants to understand the terms of the construction process…
Triple-play provider Totalplay is considering taking part in Mexico’s planned shared network project, its CEO Eduardo Kuri said.
The company, which is owned by Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas, wants to understand the terms of the construction process before deciding whether to submit a bid.
Mexico’s Telecommunications and Transport Ministry (SCT) is expected to publish the preliminary bidding terms for the national shared network project in two weeks.
The Ministry aims to launch the tender on 29 October and to announce the winning bidders by the first quarter of 2016. According to local reports, it has so far received 36 expressions of interest in the project, which is based on a private-public partnership (PPA) scheme.
In January, Grupo Salinas sold Mexico’s third largest wireless operator Iusacell to AT&T for US$2.5bn, although it retained Totalplay, which provides broadband internet, fixed telephony and pay-TV services in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Cuernavaca and Toluca, as well as the corporate internet service, networks and fixed telephony operations of another subsidiary, Enlace.
The company, which has a total of 250,000 subscribers, claims it doubled its number of clients over the past year, and expects to expand to an additional 24 cities and 7.5 million households in the country over the next five years.
Its main competitors are dominant players Grupo Televisa and America Movil.
