{"id":112613,"date":"2018-05-16T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=112613"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T11:42:40","slug":"indotel-suspends-telecom-spectrum-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/16\/indotel-suspends-telecom-spectrum-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Indotel suspends telecom spectrum tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112640\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112640\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Parabolic-satellite-antenna-Wikipedia-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has suspended a tender for a 30MHz block of wireless telecommunications spectrum in the 1700-2100MHz band, following a complaint from Servicios Ampliados de Telefonos (Satel) company that contested that Viva Dominicana was the sole participant in the tender.<\/p>\n<p>Indotel announced it would halt the process after Satel complained that it already owns the rights to operate those frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>Viva Dominicana was the only bidder for the spectrum after reportedly offering US$30 million for the spectrum, with rivals Altice and Claro not taking part. The regulator said it would investigate Satel\u2019s claims before deciding whether to allocate the 30MHz block.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecompaper.com\/news\/dominican-republic-suspends-aws-spectrum-tender--1244340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecom Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has suspended a tender for a 30MHz block of wireless telecommunications spectrum in the 1700-2100MHz band, following a complaint from Servicios Ampliados de Telefonos (Satel) company that contested that Viva Dominicana was the sole participant in the tender. Indotel announced it would halt the process after Satel complained that it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/16\/indotel-suspends-telecom-spectrum-tender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}