A Mexican court has ordered Mexico’s Communications and Transport Ministry (SCT) to cancel Nextel‘s mobile licence.

The Nextel-Televisa consortium paid MXN 180.3 million (approximately USD 14.2 million) for 30 MHz of nationwide spectrum in the 1.7 GHz and 1.9 GHz frequency bands in an auction completed in 2010. Mexican judge Alfredo Cid Garcia has now ruled that the consortium has violated the bidding rules, local newspaper Informador reports.

The ruling follows a complaint filed by market competition Iusacell, which claims that Nextel and Televisa paid too little for the spectrum. Nextel has 10 days to appeal the court decision.

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