Altan only remaining bidder in Mexico shared network tender

News Wireless Mexico 7 NOV 2016
Altan only remaining bidder in Mexico shared network tender

The Altan consortium made up of Mexican operators Megacable and Axtel is now the only remaining bidder for the tender to build and run Mexico's wholesale shared network on the 700 MHz band after the country’s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) disqualified the rival bid from the Rivada consortium. In a statement, the SCT said the group made up of Rivada Networks and Spectrum Frontier did not submit a required "letter of credit" for MXN 1 billion in time and was thus disqualified.

However, the Irish Independent reports that Rivada Networks chairman and CEO Declan Ganley is claiming the company was “stitched up” and has pledged to file a lawsuit against the Mexican state to get readmitted to the process after a “dubious and perplexing" decision to disqualify his company’s bid.

Altan’s offer for the USD 7 billion project will be evaluated on 17 November, said the SCT. If the bid is accepted, the consortium will need to install around 12,000 new telecom towers in order to cover at least 85 percent of the population. Under the terms of the 20-year public-private partnership, mobile operators will then be able to rent space on the 4G network in exchange for cheap use of high quality spectrum in the 700 MHz band.

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Mobile

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Axtel,  Megacable,  SCT

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Mexico

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Government telecommunications licensing, Voice services, Data services, Regulations, Network equipment, Wireless, Wholesale, Contract & orders

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