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The Plenary of the IFT agrees that the termination of broadcasted television analog signals in Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo will be on January 14th, 2015 (Press Release 67/2014)
The Plenary of the IFT agrees that the termination of broadcasted television analog signals in Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo will be on January 14th, 2015
• The SEDESOL defined the list of beneficiaries for the delivery program of TDT (Televisión Digital Terrestre) receivers implemented by the federal government
• The SCT distributed receivers that are to meet more than 90% penetration among the beneficiaries of these established by SEDESOL and informed the IFT the compliance with the provisions of the legal framework
• With this, the IFT determined that it is appropriate to conclude with the transmission of analog signals in coverage areas of television stations in the three cities in the northeastern border region
• Broadcast TV service concessionaires and digital transmissions are already broadcasting in these areas
As provided in the Nineteen Transitional Article of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) must conclude the transmission of analog signals of broadcast television no later than December 31st, 2015 by area of coverage, once this is achieved, in the appropriate area, a penetration rate of 90% of low-income households defined by the Ministry of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, Sedesol), with receivers or decoders capable of receiving digital signals.
According to this legal arrangement is for the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) to implement programs and actions associated with the Policy Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television (Política de Transición a la Televisión Digital Terrestre) for the delivery or distribution of the receiving equipment or decoders as well as to perform the accreditation of the penetration that the Policy appoints.
Thus, the Article 18 of the TDT Policy stipulates that to the Plenary of IFT corresponds to solve that it is appropriate to fix the termination of analog broadcasting, once the SCT provides the information stating that they have reached a penetration level of receivers or decoders capable of receiving digital broadcasts in 90% or more in the low-income households defined by Sedesol in each coverage area.
In addition to this, to determine the completion of the analog signals is required that digital transmissions are made in the entire area of corresponding coverage.
When both assumptions are met, the IFT will determine the date and time of the termination of analogue transmissions as appropriate, which shall be considered in a business day, between the date of its determination and making this a period of at least four weeks, so that during this period can be informed the public about the transition to digital television.
In this sense, on November 21st, 2014, the SCT, through the Sub-secretariat of Communications, sent to the IFT the information on the penetration achieved in various areas of coverage of the Northeast Frontier Region (Matamoros, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Laredo) and contains the following:
i) The number of low-income households defined by Sedesol per coverage area of each broadcast television station;
ii) the number of low-income households defined by Sedesol in which capable receivers for receiving digital broadcasts coverage area of each broadcast television station have been delivered; and,
iii) the percentage of penetration with suitable receivers to receive digital transmissions in low-income households defined by Sedesol in each coverage area of each broadcast television station.
Penetration by TV station (main and complementary)
Community | Concessionaire | Distinctive | Total of households in the Sedesol actualized list (thousands) | Households in the Sedesol list that received a television (thousands) | Penetration |
Nuevo Laredo
| Ramona Esparza González | XEFE
| 23.4
| 21.3
| 91.2%
|
Nuevo Laredo | Televimex, S.A. de C.V.
| XHBR
| 23.4
| 21.3
| 91.2%
|
Nuevo Laredo
| Radio Televisora de México Norte, S.A. de C.V. | XHLAR
| 23.2
| 21.2
| 91.3%
|
Nuevo Laredo
| Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V.
| XHLAT
| 23.2
| 21.2
| 91.3%
|
Nuevo Laredo | Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V | XHLNA
| 23.2
| 21.2
| 91.3%
|
Nuevo Laredo
| Multimedios Televisión, S.A. de C.V.
| XHNAT | 23.4 | 21.3 | 91.2% |
Matamoros
| Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V. | XHMTA | 52.9 | 49.9 | 94.4% |
Matamoros
| Televisión Azteca, S.A. de C.V. | XHOR | 87.7 | 81.0 | 92.4% |
Matamoros
| TVNorte. S. de R.L. de C.V. | XHRIO | 95.5 | 88.0 | 92.1% |
Matamoros
| Televisión Digital, S.A. de C.V. | XHVTV | 88.9
| 81.9 | 92.1% |
Reynosa | Televisión Azteca. S.A. de C.V.
| XHREY | 60.7 | 56.3 | 92.8% |
Reynosa-Matamoros | Canales de Televisión Populares, S.A. de C.V. | XERV | 54.2 | 50.5 | 93.1% |
Reynosa-Matamoros | Televisora de Occidente, S.A. de C.V. | XHAB | 92.0 | 84.8 | 92.1% |
Reynosa- Matamoros | Televimex, S.A. de C.V.
| XHTAM
| 92.7
| 85.3
| 92.1%
|
*Note: The number of households must not be summed up because many of them are provided of the service by more of one TV station.
Additionally, the IFT corroborate the current relationship of digital television broadcast transmissions under the authorized parameters on each of the aforementioned stations transmitting in Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Reynosa.
Thus, in a special meeting held today, the Plenary of the IFT determined that the conditions laid down in the existing legal framework, consisting in the coverage areas of these TV stations is exceeded credited 90% receptors penetration with eligible for digital transmissions in low-income households defined by Sedesol, and that digital transmissions are made in the areas of station coverage.
Given this, the Plenary agreed that television stations with broadcast call signs: XEFE-TV, XHBR-TV, XHLAR-TV, XHLAT-TV, XHLNA-TV, XHNAT-TV, XHMTA-TV, XHOR-TV, XHRIO- TV, XHVTV-TV, XHREY-TV, XERV-TV, XHAB-TV and XHTAM-TV, in the cities of Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros, from Tamaulipas state, must definitively cease their analog broadcasts at 00 : 00 hours on January 14th, 2015.
According to the provisions of the TDT Policy, henceforth, the IFT and concessionaires should inform the public about the date and the time for the completion of analogue transmissions of those seasons.
In this regard it is important to note that the Institute has conducted since July this year and to date, in dissemination on a national level, several actions through various media (newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, Internet portals and social networks), with which it has informed the public about the imminent conclusion of analogue transmissions in the country.
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In addition, the transition to this technology impulses rational and planned use of radio spectrum and better use of the 700 MHz band for the Deployment of International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) is achieved, which could translate into greater competition in the mobile telephony sector and best prices to end users of those services.
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• Modifies the bidding to reduce the time and to its conclusion to be within the first quarter of 2015
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• Publish the new Organic Statute and performs the institutional redesign of its structure according to the functions of the new regulatory framework
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The IFT implemented and tracked the specific measures to be met by companies that were determined as Preponderant Economic Agents (PEA) in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors. With these obligations, is prevented to affect competition for these industries and promotes users to receive services under better conditions.
In this regard, the regulatory body approved the various formats of short message that Telcel should send to their users in prepaid and postpaid schemes, through which local service tariffs will be informed, long distance, the price per minute to frequently used numbers, SMS rates1 and Megabytes, and the e-mail address and toll-free number where information may be consulted about rates applicable to its operations. The company will start sending these messages later this October 29th.
Regarding the PEA in broadcasting, the Institute decided the final terms and conditions of the Tender Offer Infrastructure, which should be ready to apply from the first day of January 2015.
Another major actions of IFT in the third quarter was the modification of the bases and call for tender frequencies to form two new digital television broadcast networks, among whose is notably a change to the dates of the process to reduce the time and completion is within the first quarter of 2015.
In the third quarter, the Institute issued the ruling of the International Public Tender for the acquisition of the "Technical System Testing the Radio Spectrum" (Sistema de Comprobación Técnica del Espectro Radioeléctrico), which will allow the expansion of the National Radio Monitoring Network (Red Nacional de Radiomonitoreo, RENAR) of the Institute, which primordial aim is to monitor the spectrum in various parts of Mexico.
For this process 20 transportable mobile stations were acquired, as well as an independent control station for controlling these, which will complement the team that currently has the IFT, composed of a Regional Control Centre, an attended fixed station and ten mobile units of radio monitoring.
With such equipment radio monitoring activities and monitoring use of radio spectrum will be strengthened; work on location signals are also conducted in strategic locations nationwide.
Moreover, as a result of the entry into force of the new Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, the IFT issued a new Organic Statute which involved a redesign of its institutional structure, which led to the creation of new areas such as the Center of Studies, the General Coordination of User Policy, Strategic Planning, International Affairs and Regulatory Improvement as well as the Radio Spectrum Unit and Media and Audiovisual Content Unit.
Meanwhile, the Regulatory Policy Unit, the Concessions and Services Unit (formerly Services to the Industry Unit), and Compliance Unit (formerly Monitoring and Verification Unit), were redesigned with a convergent approach, which will allow greater specialization in the design and implementation of regulatory policy addressed to the sectors of telecommunications and broadcasting.
With regard to the projects implemented in coordination with the Federal Government, the Plenary of the Institute issued the new Policy for Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television (Televisión Digital Terrestre, TDT) which provides guidelines to be followed by concessionaires and license holders of this service to conclude the transmission of analog television signals on or before December 31, 2015.
For actions monitoring and verification by the Institute to ensure that concessionaires comply with their obligations under the concession agreements and other legal systems, a total of 104 inspections / verification are performed. As a result, 28 administrative procedures for imposing sanctions were initiated and 76 are in the process of opinion.
In terms of economic competition, the IFT took eight investigations for monopolistic practices, initiated proceedings for declaration of substantial market power, which is under investigation, by the Investigating Authority, and issued 34 opinions regarding concessionaires operations.
The Antitrust Unit substantiate various methods among which there are some that resulted in sanctions, as the corresponding to Corporativo Vasco de Quiroga, S.A. de C.V., for breach of the provisions of the conditions to which the authorization of a notified concentration was clamped with a fine of 53 million 838 thousand pesos and on Teléfonos de México, S.A.B. de C.V., with a penalty for 49 million 320 thousand pesos for the commission of relative monopolistic practice in the market for long distance call termination service in its public telecommunications network.
In the quarter reported, the IFT received a total of 178 requests for access to information, of which 67% had the access, 22% were refused for the information was reserved or non-existent, 9% were granted public versions were delivered and 2% was determined to discard requests.
The Transparency Council met on five occasions in the period from July to September in four review petitions that were presented at different times, an appeal was dismissed in May and two more presented in June were discontinued. Of the four review resources resolved, two were resolved in a favorable direction for the appellants, instructing the relevant areas to give access to the requested information.
The full text of the quarterly report is available on the website of the Institute in the following link:
https://www.ift.org.mx/iftweb/wpcontent/uploads/2014/09/
3er_Informe_Trimestral_P_IFT_151014_363.pdf
1The third quarterly report covers activities from July 1° to 25 September 2014.
