AMLO's ICT to do list: Back-up satellite project
The incoming Mexican government will have to evaluate what to do with a stalled project to launch a back-up for state-owned MexSat's satellite telecommunications network, which has not reported any advances since last September, according to local media.
Mexico's state-owned telecommunications company Telecomm, which operates the two-satellite (Bicentenario and Morelos 3) MexSat network, launched a call in 2017 for companies to participate in a project to launch a third satellite to offer at least 50% back-up capabilities for its mobile communications systems Morelos 3 satellite, in orbit since 2015.
The project was expected to be a public-private partnership (PPP), where the government would make its 116.8º W orbital position available as well as access to its infrastructure and control centers and issue permits, while its partner would build and launch the satellite. The PPP was meant as a response to Mexico's loss of the Morelos 3 twin satellite Centenario at launch in May 2015.
Mexico received 25 proposals for the project, including seven from satellite manufacturers such as Boeing (the makers of Morelos 3) and nine from satellite operators. Companies made suggestions including widening the coverage area of the satellite and adding internet of things and machine to machine applications.
But since the publication of a summary of the proposals on September 8, 2017, Mexsat has announced no further advances with the project.
Sources at Telecomm told local newspaper El Economista that the project stalled due to lack of resources. "There was a consultation ... a self-financing PPP was not the way to go," a source told the paper.
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