ISLAMABAD:
The first mobile spectrum public sale for Next Generation Mobile Services (NGMS) in
According to a press unencumber issued by way of the authority, the digital public sale used to be participated in by way of two operators, CMPak (Zong) and PMCL (Jazz) for the 1,800 MHz band.
The digital public sale went as much as 18 rounds and used to be concluded by way of pointing out Zong because the winner of 10 MHz (2 blocks of five MHz) in 1,800 MHz band towards the cost of $14.398 million.
The communication additional added that the spectrum bought within the 1,800 MHz band used to be 85 in step with cent of the entire presented spectrum within the mentioned band for AJK and G-B.
Furthermore, Telenor, Ufone and Zong have additionally gained 1.2 MHz in 1,800 MHz band.
Telenor Pakistan used to be declared a winner within the 2,100 MHz band for a spectrum of 15 MHz towards the set base value, the clicking unencumber added. The spectrum bought in 2100 MHz band is 50 computer of the entire presented spectrum within the mentioned band, it mentioned.
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The general income generated from this spectrum public sale procedure for AJK & GB stood at over $30 million.
“PTA finished the public sale procedure with the help of across the world reputed marketing consultant JV Telconet / Frontier Economics who used to be on-board since April 2021, and carried out thorough session with mobile trade and different stakeholders,” the clicking unencumber said, including that the government constituted an Auction Advisory Committee in October 2020 underneath the chairmanship of (then) finance minister.
The Policy Directive used to be issued on August 11, 2021 underneath which the PTA initiated the method for honest and clear spectrum public sale procedure making sure client pursuits, the communication said.
It concluded that the addition of the spectrum would lend a hand Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) to offer higher information and voice services and products within the two areas recently being centered at the promotion of tourism.
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