Telephones of Mexico (Telmex) obtained a renewal of concessions to provide telephone and Internet services in 134 local or ASL service areas throughout the country, considered for the most part to be high and very high marginalization localitiesand through spectrum frequencies and a public telecommunications network concession.
Mexico, in terms of telecommunications, is a country segmented into 320 Local Service Areas.
These concessions are related to a renewal of concessions from 2016, in which the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) renewed spectrum to Telmex to maintain service in those 134 locations located throughout Mexico, despite the fact that Telmex made an untimely request for the endorsement of concessions, since the IFT was in the dilemma of not renewing the company’s permits or leaving the company disconnected. to the inhabitants of those regions, since Telmex was then the only communication alternative for them.
On this occasion, the validity authorized by the IFT will be for five years starting on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 and will be subject to Telmex accepts new conditions that, if applicable, are established in the new concession title.
The concession had the objective of covering localities that were characterized by low levels of income and a deficit of home telephone services that were far from urban centers and in areas of “high” and “very high” marginalization.
By June 2016, The Economist reported that the IFT renewed a batch of concessions in the 400 MHz band to Telefonos de México for the provision of local and long distance fixed wireless telephony services, as well as Internet with coverage in 134 local or ASL service areas, all rural and very highly marginalized.
The Federal Telecommunications Institute revealed on those dates that Telmex submitted an untimely request for renewal of concessions and that Telmex’s full use of that frequency band, which totaled 16 MHz of frequencies in total, was not physically verified.
Despite this, the authority decided to renew the concession titles to Telmex, so that more than 109,600 lines between residential and public booths of 3,835 rural communities that existed at that time did not lose their telephone and Internet connection with the outside world, since these are the only lines of communication with the world.
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