Chile's government expects to hold an auction for 4G broadband internet services in March 2011 reports Business News Americas.

Chile’s regulator Subtel was expected to hold an LTE/4G auction in 2010 timeframe earlier.  Chilean operators hope to launch commercial LTE services in Chile by 2012.

Earlier this year Chilean mobile operator Entel PCS had performed LTE tests at Universidad de Chile. During the test, done over a real LTE network configuration, attendees had the chance to witness maximum download speeds of 50 Mbps, using 20 MHz (10 MHz for the uplink and 10 MHz for the downlink). The operator used Ericsson gear to perform its demonstration. Visit Quovis Media for more details.

Former Subtel head Pablo Bello previously said that the regulator is completing the cleanup of the 2.6 GHz band to make it available so that the next government “will be able to make appropriate decisions about 4G.

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