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Operators paid combined 4 billion pesos for 80 MHz of AWS spectrum.
Mexico’s telecoms regulator has officially granted 4G licences that were won by AT&T and America Movil at auction earlier this year.
In total, 80 MHz of AWS-1 and AWS-3 spectrum were tendered.
AT&T picked up two blocks of AWS-1 spectrum with a bid of 1.87 billion pesos (€90.61 million), while America Movil, which offers mobile services in Mexico under the Telcel brand, bid MXN2.13 billion for six 5 MHz blocks, two in the AWS-1 band and four in the AWS-3 band. Some AWS-3 spectrum remained unsold.
The auction ended in February, and the results were confirmed by telco watchdog the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) in March.
In a statement released over the weekend, the IFT said AT&T and Telcel each paid the first instalment of their licence fee on time.
