[1/3] Flags flutter on the facade of the Colombian Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies building in Bogota, Colombia, November 8, 2023.
Colombia hopes to improve connectivity as it joins its Latin American neighbors, including Argentina and Mexico, which already have 5G services.
"We're going to award up to four blocks of 100 megahertz in the 3,500 frequency," Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Mauricio Lizcano, said in an interview.
"Whoever pays the most wins the spectrum, ... it's impossible for there to be a defect in the procedure," Lizcano said.
Colombia had 80.8 million cellphone subscribers at the end of 2022, spread among operators including Claro, Movistar, Tigo and WOM.
Persons:
Luis Jaime Acosta, Mauricio Lizcano, Lizcano, Oliver Griffin, Diane Craft
Organizations:
Colombian Ministry of Information, Communications Technologies, REUTERS, Rights, Information, Thomson
Locations:
Bogota, Colombia, Rights BOGOTA, Argentina, Mexico, Claro, Movistar