ISLAMABAD Five proposals from foreign consultants have been submitted to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to manage the nation’s 5G spectrum auction; the process is anticipated to be finished within the current fiscal year.
Industry participants, however, have voiced reservations regarding the auction’s timing and the appropriateness of moving forward with the 5G deployment at this time.
The telecom regulator said in a statement on Monday that it had received financial and technical bids from five foreign consultants for the next-generation mobile services auction in Pakistan: National Economic Research Associates Inc., Aetha Consulting Limited, Detecon Consulting FZ-LLC, Frontier Economics Limited, and KomKonsult (Private) Limited.
