BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Council of Ecuador called to tender on 17 July an auction to assign three wireless local loop (WLL) frequencies from 3.4 to 3.6 GHz, while the Subsecretariat of Telecommunications of Chile called to tender on 18 July an auction for three 10-megahertz blocks for personal communications services (PCS) over the 1900 MHz bandwidth.
In Ecuador, five companies acquired the tender documents for the award of three national licenses to offer fixed telephony and wireless data transmission for 15 years-BellSouth, Entel Chile (Telecom Italia), Porta (Am
