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This week, the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) ratified the established mobile operators, Claro (America Movil), Movistar and Tigo (Millicom) should facilitate access to national roaming trunking operator Avantel, according the company said in a statement. The ability to access the roaming will allow the company to offer its customers nationwide coverage for its services with new technology ustream in areas where it has not deployed their own networks. ustream At the same time, the president of Avantel, Jorge Palacio, said the company will begin to offer LTE services from July this year, according to news agencies Colombian Caracol.
Worth remembering that the last radio spectrum bidding Colombian government, known as 4G auction, ustream Avantel was one of the winners of a license and spectrum ustream to deploy an LTE network in the country.
Palacio also noted that the investment program to modernize infrastructure Avantel is around 250 million dollars, and this disbursement plan has already been implemented. Trunking provider expects to start the first phase of its LTE service in the cities of Bogotá, ustream Bucaramanga and Barrancabermeja, according to Caracol. In a second step, the network will be extended to Barranquilla, ustream Cali, Medellin and major cities of the country as long as this medium.
A Avantel is especially interested ustream in reaching their 4G LTE service to the business sector and government entities is the main business of the company, explained Palace, besides being able to offer it from the beginning to the companies that are already customers trunking operator .
Last February, the CRC had determined that incumbents are required to grant access ustream to their networks Avantel. Subsequently, operators filed administrative appeals against the decision, which ultimately were recently resolved by the regulator, let them know Avantel in its statement. So, companies now have a term of up to 30 days to give you access to their networks trunking operator.
What he did was to ratify the CRC decision last February when commanded Claro, Tigo and Movistar offer automatic roaming Avantel nationwide upon completion of legal entity ustream allowed operators to appeal against the decision of February.
February resolution put closure to a legal dispute in which Avantel had promoted a request to the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (Mintic) and CRC in seeking cancellation of permits LTE Claro, Tigo and Movistar. Even Tigo meanwhile accused ustream Avantel had delayed the schedule of tests for national automatic roaming service.
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Lucas Ledesma is a journalist who covers the telecommunications and information technology since 2004. Has worked and collaborated on various digital and print media related to these sectors. In April 2007, Tele-Media as editor TeleSemana.com. Joined His educational background includes a degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a Masters in Strategic Communications Management at the University of Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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