MEXICO CITY, Mexico- The Mexican government plans to resume auctioning of radio spectrum this year after defining frequency blocks for services that include personal communications services.
According to the Mexican Government Gazette, 1850 MHz to 1990 MHz will be allocated for fixed or mobile wireless access along with 440 MHz to 450 MHz and 485 MHz to 495 MHz.
Spectrum also will be allocated for multipoint-multichannel distribution systems used for microwave TV transmission and point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave links.
Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) has divided the country into 62 basic service areas, which in turn are grouped into the nine cellular service regions that the SCT created in 1989, said the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Telecommunications. Each service area encompasses a set of towns or cities with economic ties or equivalent topography.
Additionally, current frequency holders are required to file proof of use of those frequencies. The responses will be used to organize the spectrum prior to the auction, said OT.
The Mexican government completed its first ever auction of radio spectrum near the close of 1996. Seventeen companies bid for 36 paging licenses in the 900 MHz to 932 MHz range.
Mexico’s new Federal Telecommunications Commission was mandated by a January 1995 amendment to the country’s constitution, giving it the same powers as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
