Tech Desk 
Oct 13, 2024
United States (US)-based international consultancy companies have become the top two firms in technical and lowest in a monetary bid of $0.750million was selected to offer great consultancy services to Pakistan’s government for auction of International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum to enhance the latest Generation Mobile Broadband Services in Pakistan.
A few reliable sources told ProPakistani that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) recently issued a letter of intent (LOI) to NERA Telecommunications, which is needed to immediately respond in the seven working days. This is a significant move to help Pakistan’s government complete the 5G spectrum auction in the first quarter of 2025, till April.
NERA is substantially a highly popular and top-ranked consultancy firm on the spectrum, with great expertise in financial and corporate modelling to revolutionise the Telecom Industry.
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However, Aetha Consulting Limited and NERA maintained a great balance with technical bids, but the latter had a minimal bid of $0.750 million.
All of those five international consultants including Aetha Consulting Limited; Detecon Consulting FZ-LLC; Frontier Economics Limited; KomKonsult (Private) Limited; and National Economic Research Associates Inc. were successfully qualified in technical bids to offer great consultancy services for the betterment of the country.
Additionally, the monetary bids were opened on October 3 and none of the political parties raised their concern about NERA’s evaluation, which prompted PTA to issue an LOI to the consultancy firm.
These consultants will consult on required policy auctions and reforms for the elevation of infrastructure investment, and provide sustainable growth to the country.
Contrasting the country’s existing cellular or IMT spectrum assignments with regional practices and highlighting the suggested step-wise auction of combined spectrum in 700 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 2100 MHz bands including the unpaired spectrum in 2300 MHz, 2600 MHz, 3500 MHz bands.
