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Peru: Government to hold rural broadband tender in May Print E-mail
Wednesday, 05 March 2008

ProInversion, Peru's government body for the promotion of private investment, intends to retender for a rural broadband contract on May 9. The contract is to provide internet service in 1,050 rural municipalities.

Prequalified operators include Telefonica del Peru, Gilat to Home Peru, Rural Telecom and Consorcio Trebol Informatica e Itaca. The operators have until April 29 to submit technical offers to ProInversion. Operators not already prequalified have until March 25 to submit prequalification documents.

The tender was originally launched in 2007. On June 14, 2007, ProInversion cancelled a US$ 11.5 million contract awarded to Telefonica after another bidder, Consorcio Yachay, said that its bid had been unfairly disqualified.

Some technical conditions of the tender have been modified since the 2007 process, and since the changes are significant, the tender process is being redone. Telecommunications regulator Osiptel has come to the conclusion that the satellite connectivity market does not have sufficient capacity, and therefore the 2007 rural broadband project tender was no longer feasible.

Source: Business News Americas - WDR/Intelecon Regulatory News.