George Miley, president of the board at Sutel, explained that this document will be available at the website of the Public Services Authority (ARESEP) for an entire month.

Miley stated that “we won’t include strategic details such as a minimum bidding price, … the idea is that interested companies make additions and suggestions to the rules”.

Source: Nacion.com

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