The COVID-19 pandemic revealed – and widened – the gaps in the development of infrastructure for connectivity.
In the case of Peru, according to the international consulting firm SmC +, investments that exceed US $ 2 billion are needed only for passive telecommunications infrastructure until 2030, which will be essential for new technologies to have massive and uninterrupted access and to maximize their socioeconomic impact.
Actions to take
About, Sebastian Cabello, CEO of said consultancy, foresees that by 2030 around 550,000 new sites will be deployed in Latin America, the vast majority of the type small cells (or small cells) that will coexist with the new macrocells and will serve to support a wide range of services that will be the basis of the new leap in productivity in many sectors.
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While, he emphasized, only in Peru will need to install at least 59,000 new sites, that can only be carried out provided that the regulatory conditions necessary for their deployment are in place.
In this sense, they recommend policies that achieve greater alignment and regulatory uniformity between national and sub-national organizations, as well as a reduction in bureaucracy to enable permits for the use of public spaces and buildings, as well as legal certainty in the appeal processes and the application of disproportionate or disparate rates.
Regarding Peruvian regulations, Renzo escobar, General Manager of American Tower in our country, stated that we have Law 29022, which classifies as “an exemplary framework in the region that has made possible an accelerated advance in the deployment of infrastructure in the last decade”, which must be strengthened to meet the new ones that are required here and keep up with the exponential growth in internet demand.
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Route to follow
“The starting point will be the 5G spectrum tenders, something that should not be delayed, while in 2022 they will begin deployments that will help to obtain regional scale from the contests in Chile, the Dominican Republic and Brazil,” said Cabello.
On the other hand, SmC + projects investments of US $ 17,000 million in Latin America, only to cover passive infrastructure needs (excluding active infrastructure, spectrum and operating costs).
Cabello emphasized that the growing participation of infrastructure companies in the market, and the consequent increase in sharing, improves the use of public space, reduces administrative costs and reduces environmental impact.
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Said analysis, according to Escobar, shows the transformation that has taken place in the telecommunications infrastructure development models, where passive infrastructure companies contribute to the fact that connectivity reaches the entire country in a more agile and efficient way, at a time when it is necessary to accelerate the digital inclusion to improve the quality of life.
The key
Action. According to the study, it is also urgent to promote the development of intersectoral roundtables – with the participation of the private sector – to facilitate deployment, optimize nation-municipality coordination, and thus standardize the rules and eliminate discretion.
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