Mexican dark fibre license won by consortium

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: An announcement has been made by the Secretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) regarding a consortium made up of local media giant Grupo Televisa, Mexican cableco Megacable and Spain’s Telefonica has been awarded the license allowing access to two strands of dark fibre owned by state power company Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE).

Bid of MXN884 million (USD69.4 million) was submitted by the trio and it is understood that they plan to spend a combined MXN1.3 billion on upgrading the infrastructure for future use. All the three firms getting the license will be able to transport customer traffic over the fibre strands, while it will also allow them to offer routing services to other operators.

According to Francisco Gil Diaz, executive vice president of Telefonica Mexico, now there will be competition and it’s something that players very much lacked in this country. The regulator rejected mobile operator Iusacell’s application, claiming the cellco had failed to agree to the auction rules.