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The IFT Plenary decides to modify the operating specifications of number portability to facilitate this process for users (Press Release 23/2014)
The IFT Plenary decides to modify the operating specifications of number portability to facilitate this process for users
- The text message whereby the confirmation PIN is submitted to the number to be ported will change, in order to offer greater certainty and clarity in the communication with the subscriber
- A numeral is added regarding the obligatory accountability of concessionaires to deliver the invoice of the services contracted at least 10 in advance to the payment deadline
- It approves the granting of 7 new concession certificates and 21 extensions of concession certificates to install, operate and exploit a public telecommunications network to individuals and corporations in different cities of the country
The Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) Plenary decided to modify the operating specifications to implement number portability, in order to this process to be more expedite and transparent for users.
Number portability is the right of subscribers to keep their telephone number, notwithstanding the concessionaire of public telecommunications network they may choose.
The modifications approved by the Plenary derive from the agreements unanimously reached in the Technical Portability Committee, the forum presided and coordinated by the IFT, and in which providers of telecommunication services participate, for whom the number has been assigned.
One of the essential requirements to carry out the number portability process in the case of subscribers of prepaid mobile telephone services is that the user requesting the change may have a Personal Identification Number (PIN) of confirmation. This number is generated by the Database Administrator (Administrador de la Base de Datos, DA or ABD) and sent through a text message to the number to be ported, by the telephone company request to the telephone company the user wants to change to.
With the change approved today by the Plenary, the text message must state: “The change of your mobile telephone company has commenced. Deliver the code to the new company only if you wish to make the change. Your portability PIN is XXXX” (Está iniciando su cambio de empresa de telefonía móvil, entregue la clave de la nueva empresa solo si desea cambiarse, su NIP de portabilidad es XXXX).
Thus, greater clarity, certainty and transparency will be offered in the message sent to the subscriber of local and mobile services in the prepaid scheme, and the risk of deceiving practices is diminished.
Likewise, the IFT Plenary decided to add number 2.3 ter of the operating specifications, regarding the mandatory nature for telecommunication services providers to provide, through any mean agreed by the parties, the pertinent invoice to the subscriber numbers, with the amount chargeable to such subscriber at least 10 calendar days in advance to the payment deadline of the telecommunications services contracted.
This measure is destined to offer users the elements to make easier the process for their telephone number portability whenever they decide so, and to reduce the obstacles that could exist to conduct the pertinent process.
Conversely, the Plenary decided to grant 7 certificate concessions to install, operate and exploit a public telecommunications network to an equal number of individuals or corporations in different locations of the country, listed herein below:
Likewise, it decided to grant 21 extensions of concession certificates to install, operate and exploit a public telecommunications network to an equal number of individuals or corporations in different locations of the country, listed herein below:
Finally, the IFT agreed to issue a permit certificate to install and operate Channel 49 of digital television in favor of the Government of the State of Morelos.
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The IFT Plenary issues general guidelines for the authorization of additional services to broadcasting, telecommunications, and telephony concessionaires (Press Release 22/2014)
The IFT Plenary issues general guidelines for the authorization of additional services to broadcasting, telecommunications, and telephony concessionaires
- The Institute complies with the constitutional mandate of establishing general provisions so that concessionaires are authorized to offer additional services to the ones included in their current concession title
- The IFT will be able to set the requirements that broadcasting, telecommunications, and telephony concessionaires must meet to move to the sole concession model only when Congress issues the secondary legislation
In accordance with the provisions of Fourth Transitional Article of the Decree of constitutional reform in the telecommunications field, in extraordinary session, the Plenary of the Federal
Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) approved, by means of agreement P/IFT/EXT/060514/102, the "General guidelines that establish the requirements, terms and conditions that the current concessionaires of broadcasting, telecommunications and telephony must comply in order to authorize them with additional services that are subject of their concession".
It is important to point out that at this time the Institute is only able to determine the requirements, terms and conditions which the current concessionaires who intend to request additional services to those authorized in the respective titles of concession must comply, given that to date it does not have the elements needed to define the requirements that broadcasting, telecommunications and telephony concessionaires must meet to move to the sole concession model due to the scope of such concessions being reserved to what the regulatory act determines which, in turn, will be issued by the Congress of the Union.
In this regard, the Guidelines approved today for the approval of additional services include the establishment of specific and general requirements applicable to all types of broadcasting, telecommunications and telephony services concessions, whether they are: (i) radio spectrum frequency bands concessions; (ii) public telecommunications networks concessionaires ; (iii) concessionaires with express prohibition or restriction to provide certain services, or, (iv) concessions whose holders have been declared as part of the interest groups that conform to preponderant economic agents, in accordance with the constitutional mandate.
The Guidelines that include the authorization which the Institute may issue with respect to requests for additional services will be without prejudice to the obligation to continue the provision of the services referred to in the concession in question.
These provisions will be published in the Official Gazette of the Federation in the next few days, for the purpose of their entry into force.
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The Federal Telecommunications Institute Plenary decides to amend the policy of transition to Digital Terrestrial Television, DTT (TELEVISIÓN DIGITAL TERRESTRE, TDT) (Press Release 21/2014)
The Federal Telecommunications Institute Plenary decides to amend the policy of transition to Digital Terrestrial Television, DTT
(TELEVISIÓN DIGITAL TERRESTRE, TDT)
- Decides to adjust the date to conclude the analogue broadcasting of free-to-air television in the cities of Monterrey, Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez from May 29th of 2014 to November 26th of the current year.
- The resolution is based on the survey results carried out in such cities, which evidence that, currently, the TDT (Televisión Digital Terrestre) has no more than 90% of penetration in the services of broadcasted TV.
- At the same meeting, it was decided to impose fines and declare the forfeiture of the assets involved of two FM radio stations that operated without any permit or concession in the benefit of the nation
On July 31st of 2013, an amendatory ruling of the Policy of Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television DTT (Televisión Digital Terrestre, TDT) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación, DOF) which fixes May 29th of 2014 as the date when broadcasted analogue transmissions will conclude in the cities of Monterrey, Nuevo León; Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa an d Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Mentioned cities were considered as part of the pilot tests of the DTT Policy during the year of 2014.
According to the provisions of the DTT Policy, if one month before the month when the analogue switch-off must be conducted in a certain locality, the level of penetration of 90% of TDT has not been achieved, the date must be adjusted to carry out the conclusion of analogue transmissions in that city.
To this effect, and in order to have reliable information on the DTT adoption in five cities in the northern region of the country where the analogue switch-off was fixed for May 29th of 2014, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT), through the Radio and Television Systems Office (Unidad de Sistemas de Radio y Televisión, USRTV), hired a company services to obtain information on the type of television received in such localities, in order to be aware about the DTT penetration levels.
On April 28th, in an extraordinary session, the USRTV submitted a report to the IFT Plenary on the status of DTT penetration in the cities of Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo, with the following results:
- 8,786 surveys were conducted in these 5 cities
- The homes that have a television set, between 54 and 77 p e r c e n t depend on free-to-air television
- There is no equal penetration of DTT in these 5 cities or higher than 90% in homes that depend on free-to-air-television
Thus, since the condition of not having DTT penetration is equal or higher than 90% in the cities foreseen to carry out the analogue switch-off, the IFT Plenary decided to amend the Ruling whereby the Digital Terrestrial Television technological standard is adopted and the Policy for the Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television in Mexico established, published on June 2nd of 2004, amended, in turn, on May 4th of 2012, April 4th, June 1st and July 31st of 2013.
With this amendment, the date to conclude the analogue transmissions of broadcasted television in the cited five cities of the northern region of the country is adjusted; according to the general calendar set forth for 2014 in the DTT Policy is November 26th of 2014. The foregoing, without prejudice that the Institute may be able to review the dates set forth in the DTT Policy, once the work schedule mentioned by the Seventeenth Transitory Article, subsection IV, of the Decree of Constitutional Reform in telecommunications matters has been informed, considering the performance of pilot tests according to the best international practices.
Conversely, in the session held yesterday, the IFT Plenary was decided to impose several fines and declare the forfeiture in benefit of the nation, of the assets destined to operate two FM radio stations that broadcasted in the cities of Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas, Zacatecas that did not have any permit or concession.
As part of the supervision actions conducted by the Institute to survey the radio spectrum, the pertinent proceedings and administrative procedures were conducted, outcome of which was the verification of the absence of concession certificates or permits that would evidence the legal operation of these stations. The IFT conducted the seizure of the assets destined to the operation of radio stations mentioned above, in order to prevent them from continuing their transmissions.
Thus, the IFT Plenary established, based on Articles 101, subsection XXIII, 103, 104 bis and 106 of the Federal Radio and Television Law, to impose penalties and declare the forfeiture of the assets destined to the operation of stations in the following frequencies and localities to the benefit of the Nation:
According to its responsibilities, the IFT will continue to conduct actions of surveillance so that broadcasting in Mexico is provided according to the terms set forth in the Law.
The Federal Telecommunications Institute takes part in the global Multistakeholder meeting on the future of internet governance in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Press Release 20/2014)
The Federal Telecommunications Institute takes part in the global Multistakeholder meeting on the future of internet governance in Sao Paulo, Brazil
- The Commissioners Adriana Labardini and Mario Fromow attend in representation of the IFT
- Representatives of countries of all the world of the government sectors, civil society, academics, companies, technical community and international organizations met in this international forum dedicated to discuss the principles and the future of the Internet Governance
On April 23rd and 24th , the Global Multistakeholder Meeting of Internet Governance Principles will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, better known as NETMundial, convened by the government of Brazil, together with Brazil's Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and the /1NET. Representatives of different sectors of countries all over the world will participate in this meeting: Governments, civil society, academics, companies, technical community and international organizations.
A Mexican Delegation formed by officers of the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Communications and Transports and the Office of the Coordination for National Digital Strategy of the Office of the President of the Republic attended, in representation of the Federal Government, as well as the Commissioners of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT), Adriana Labardini a n d Mario Fromow.
This forum is a platform to debate matters of inclusive and open Internet Governance that comprises strategic aspects related to the network safety, as well as its reliability in face of its users. The IFT, as a part of Mexico delegation, will pay attention to potential definitions on the governing principles for the future development of the Internet, as well as the options to strengthen articulating mechanisms, such as the UN Internet Governance Forum (or IGF).
As part of the multilateral organizations, the representatives of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the European Commission will actively participate.
This is an opportunity to strengthen the efforts to improve and democratize Internet governance, to aid in the recovery of trust in the Internet ecosystem and generate the axes that, once discussed in depth in other forums, may be formally adopted by institutions such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and inter-governmental bodies, such as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
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SCT hands over files to the IFT in their new regulating capacity of the telecommunications sector (SCT Press Release 246) (IFT Press Release 04/2013)
SCT hands over files to the IFT in their new regulating capacity of the telecommunications sector
- It made formal delivery of 2,123 issues in process in the matter of telecommunications that were managed before by the Ministry
Today the General Directorate of Telecommunications and Broadcasting Policy of the Ministry of Communications and Transport (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) made the formal handover, in order, by catalogue and in a transparent manner to the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) of 2,123 issues in process related to requests of granting of new concessions, permissions and allocations of the spectrum of official use, prorogations, revocations, modifications, corporate changes and sanction procedures, among others. It also handed over more than 1,100 files with finalized issues. The culmination of this process is the result of the work carried out by the work parties assigned by both institutions during the three previous weeks, which were in charge to review, classify and organize the documentation that the IFT received today. These files were previously managed by the SCT; nevertheless, as a result of the recent creation of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), this body is in charge of regulating and is the authority in the matter of economic competition of the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors, pursuant to the “Decree by which diverse dispositions of articles 6. 7, 27, 28, 73, 78, 94 and 105 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States are reformed and added”, published in the Federal Official Gazette on June 11th, 2013. As a constitutional autonomous independent body, the IFT must regulate, promote and supervise the use, leveraging and operation of the radio electric and network spectrum and providing of broadcasting and telecommunications services, 2 in addition to which it has the faculty to grant, revoke and sanction concessions in broadcasting and telecommunications matters. It is important to mention that in the act of reception, various civil employees of both institutions were present, as well as the representative of the Internal Organ of Control of the SCT.
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The Federal Telecommunications Institute and the Federal Supreme Court of Justice hold a seminar on the rights of audiences (Press Release 50/ 2014)
The Federal Telecommunications Institute and the Federal Supreme Court of Justice hold a seminar on the rights of audiences
- The seminar will be oriented to judges and members of the regulatory authorities on telecommunications and broadcasting, as well as to the general public
- It will be inaugurated next October 28th at the alternate venue of the Federal Supreme Court of Justice (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN)
- Mexican and foreign experts will attend the seminar, such as Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), (Relator Especial para la Libertad de Expresión de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, CIDH)
In order to disseminate the contents and scope of the rights of audiences among judges and the general public interested in this topic, the Federal Supreme Court of Justice (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) will hold a Seminar on the Rights of Audiences led by distinguished Mexican and foreign experts.
The rights of audiences of radio and television services were incorporated to the Mexican Constitution to Reform the Article 6 of the Constitution, so that the Mexican State must guarantee the exercise of such rights according to the principles of freedom of expression, access to information and the rights of children.
Therefore, given the impact of the content broadcasted by radio and television among different sectors of the population, the participation in this Seminar of authorities and members of the Mexican judiciary, of regulatory authorities from the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors, and of the society in general, is extremely relevant.
This Seminar will have the presence of distinguished personalities, such as Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Martín Cave, an expert on economic regulation and competition rights, and Eve Salomon, expert in the study of regulatory bodies in charge of regulating mass media, among others.
The Seminar will also have the participation of Magistrates and Court Clerks of the SCJN, representatives of civil organizations, governmental and academic bodies, as well as companies of the telecommunications and broadcasting sector.
The Seminar will be divided in 5 panels: 1) Rights of Audiences: New Human Rights? 2) Guarantor State: The challenges of the IFT and the Federal Executive as guaranteeing agents of freedom of expression, access to information, and the rights of children; 3) Horizontal Justiciability of Human Rights and Mass Media; 4) Jurisdictional Guarantee for Vulnerable Groups, and 5) Jurisdictional Control of Plurality in Audiovisual Contents.
The Seminar will be opened Tuesday, October 28th at the auditorium of SCJN alternate venue. The ceremony will be led by officers of the IFT and the SCJN. The same day the first session will be held and subsequent sessions will be held every Tuesday in November.
The first panel will be integrated by Martin Becerra, research professor at the University of Quilmes, Argentina; Guillermo Orozco, research professor of the University of Guadalajara and an expert on the reception of media and audiovisual literacy campaigns; Erick Huerta, representative of the organization Comunicación para el Desarrollo y Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C.; Clara Luz Álvarez, researcher in telecommunications and information technologies, and Cynthia Ottaviano, Ombudswoman in Argentina. The moderator will be Jean Claude Tron Petit, Magistrate of the 1st Collegiate Court on Administrative Matters Specialized in Economic Competition, Broadcasting and Telecommunications.
For further information, refer to the following link: https://www.ift.org.mx/iftweb/2014/10/cartel-delseminario-derecho-de-las-audiencias/
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The Plenary of the IFT approves the rates offered by TELCEL to its costumers as a Preponderant Economic Agent (Press Release 49/2014)
The Plenary of the IFT approves the rates offered by TELCEL to its customers as a Preponderant Economic Agent
- The Plenary establishes the SMS formats sent by the Company to its users to inform them about the applicable service rate when they are abroad,
- It appointed Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat as Head of the Investigating Authority,
- The Plenary approved the Quarterly Report of Activities for July-September.
In a regular meeting the Plenary of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de
Telecomunicaciones, IFT) authorized the rates for the services offered by Radiomóvil Dipsa, S.A. de
C.V. (Telcel) to its users.
Telcel, as Preponderant Economic Agent (Agente económico preponderante, AEP) in the telecommunications sector, is subject to comply with the obligations on rates, which must be approved by this regulatory body, under the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law.
According to these regulations the Company may not set differentiated charges to its users for any call received from the same network or from a competitor, and it must refrain from establishing commercial charges or conditions, as regards quality or price, to its users for the services originating and terminating within its network different to those applied for services originated from or terminated at the network of another carrier.
The rates approved by the Plenary fulfill these provisions under Article 208 of the Law, as well as the replicability criterion established in the measures imposed on the AEPs in the telecommunications sector which must have interconnection fees higher than those charged to their competitors for the traffic termination service.
Moreover, the Plenary approved the free text message (SMS) that Telcel must send to its users with a prepaid and postpaid service with mixed plans, informing them about the applicable service rate when they are abroad.
It was established that such short message shall specify in pesos the rate for voice, data and message services, and it will include a toll-free number and a website where users may get more information.
This SMS format must be implemented by Telcel no later than 60 business days after being notified of the Agreement.
Furthermore, as it was timely informed, on July 9th of this year the Plenary of the IFT approved the text message format that Telcel must send to its users when they make airtime prepayments in Mexico; those messages shall include detailed information on the deposited amount, the cumulative balance and the applicable basic rates for local call services, as well as for long-distance calls, SMS and megabytes for access to Internet.
In this regard, as the Company incorporated new prepayment modalities consisting of contracting service packages for seasons, it requested the approval of amendments to broaden the contents of such In this regard, and since the company joined its commercial offer new prepaid plans involving the procurement of service packages for seasons, requested the approval of amendments to broaden the content of these messages, so adjustments were made to clarity message content to the user.
Telcel must implement this measure not later than October 29th, in accordance with the deadline in the resolution of July 9th.
These measures are part of the obligations that the Preponderant Economic Agent must fulfill, so as to deliver clear information to subscribers on the charges for invoiced services and products.
The Plenary also appointed Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat as head of the Investigating Authority, a body of the IFT with technical and managerial autonomy to solve on its operations and resolutions, and charged with submitting evidence in relation to investigations on economic competition matters.
Salgado Perrilliat has a degree in Law from La Salle University and has postgraduate studies in Administrative, Bank, Fiscal, Economic-Corporate and Financial Law from the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico, and he is candidate to receive a PhD degree in Law from such university.
Salgado Perrilliat has wide experience in the public sector where he has held positions such as the Office of Legal Affairs in the Federal Institute of Access to Public Information and Data Protection (Dirección General de Asuntos Jurídicos del Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información Pública y Protección de Datos, IFAI), Head of the Legal Affairs Office of the Ministry of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP), Director General of Litigious Affairs of the Federal Competition
Commission (Comisión Federal de Competencia, CFC), and General Coordinator of the Federal Regulatory Improvement Commission (Comisión Federal de Mejora Regulatoria, COFEMER), among other positions.
Furthermore, the Plenary approved the Quarterly Report of Activities presented by the IFT for July-September of 2014, which will be sent to the Congress of the Union and to the Head of the Executive Power in compliance with Article 28, 20th paragraph, section VIII of the Mexican Constitution.
The Report will be available for consultation in the following days at the IFT website: www.ift.org.mx
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The SCT and the IFT sign agreements for a “Shared Network” in the 700 MHZ band (Press Release 48/2014)
The SCT and the IFT sign agreements for a “Shared Network” in the 700 MHZ band
- The Shared Network will start operations by the end of 2018 and, together with the Backbone Network, will offer better conditions of quality, price and coverage in telecommunication services for all mexicans.
- The IFT and the SCT signed framework and specific agreements formalizing their cooperation and establish the terms and activities for the development of the Backbone Network and the Shared Network.
- The agreements set forth the project schedules, which in the case of the Shared Network include a call for bids of a Public-Private Association responsible for deploying, operating and market wholesale services.
The Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Communications and Transport (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) signed framework and specific agreements to fulfill the Constitutional Mandate that the Shared Network starts operations no later than by 2018.
The Minister of the SCT, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza and the President Commissioner of the IFT, Gabriel Contreras Saldívar, signed the Framework Agreement of Inter-institutional Cooperation and the Specific Agreements for the projects: “Backbone Network” and “Shared Network” establishing the bases for the coordination between both institutions, as well as the applicable schedules for these two important projects.
Ruiz Esparza said that signing these agreements represents the first step of many others that will be undertaken by this agency to make a reality the access to information and communication technologies for the Mexican population. “If an immediate and significant benefit can have the Mexican society, is precisely this connectivity.”
With this, the Federal Executive and the IFT will achieve that the Shared Network commences operations by 2018, offering better services and a wider coverage in telecommunications to the Mexican population, with higher standards than the average of the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Regarding the Backbone Network, the Minister of Communications and Transports said the aim is to strengthen and expand the network of fiber optic Federal Electricity Commission to make it a highly available network that can meet the needs of the shared network services and other mobile operators.
On the Backbone Network project, the Minister emphasized that the Federal Executive will follow the regulations established by the IFT, under the guidelines that this autonomous agency may issue according to the provisions of the Constitutional Reform on Telecommunications.
He also explained that the Shared Network will be destined exclusively to market wholesale telecommunications capacity and services through concessionaires or trade companies. This project will foster the right of access to information and communication technologies, and particularly to telecommunications, including access to broadband Internet. To this end, the State will establish and promote effective competition conditions to provide such services.
The President Commissioner of the IFT pointed out that given a growing demand for connectivity which requires substantial investments in infrastructure and the use of such a scarce resource as the radio spectrum, the Constitution ordered the installation of a wholesale public shared network as a tool that will promote competition and access to broadband services.
The President Commissioner added that, as set forth in the Constitution, the coordination of all parties involved is necessary within their respective scopes to guarantee compliance with the constitutional mandates, and that therefore, the agreements signed today formalize such coordination by establishing activities and dates for compliance.
In his speech, the Undersecretary of Communications, José Ignacio Peralta, emphasized the relevance of this IFT Project and pointed out that the first result of this coordinated effort was the definition of “Model and Use” of the 700 MHz Band, a basis to appraise the spectrum, and a proposal included in the 2015 economic package sent by the Federal Executive to House of Representatives for its discussion and approval.
José Ignacio Peralta added that “with the launch of the Shared Network Project, the field tests in which six of the main telecommunication equipment manufacturers will take part in the same number of sites with different characteristics, we will have a real performance environment of the Network in different scenarios and under diverse requirements.” The Assistant Minister of Communications explained that these field tests will put the technology to the test under actual conditions, in terms of the methodology selected by the Ministry and the IFT.
The Shared Network of wholesale mobile services represents an investment of approximately $10 billion U.S. Dollars over the next 10 years to be developed by a Public-Private Association. It will promote competition in the telecommunications area, widen coverage, increase penetration of services, and it will be in operation by 2018.
This event was also attended by the Commissioners of the IFT: María Elena Estavillo Flores, Adriana Sofía Labardini Inzunza, Mario Germán Fromow Rangel, Ernesto Estrada González and Luis Fernando Borjón Figueroa, as well as by Ricardo Márquez Blas, Head of the Public Security Information Unit of the National Security Commission, the Coordinator of the Information and Knowledge Society, Mónica Aspe Bernal, and officials of the Federal Electricity Commission.
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The Plenary of IFT approves to submit to public consultation the number portability Regulations Draft Project (Press Release 47/2014)
The Plenary of IFT approves to submit to public consultation the number portability Regulations Draft Project
- The Plenary of IFT seeks to eliminate requirements that could delay or impede users to exert their right to keep their telephone number when they subscribe to another network carrier
- The Plenary has solved on four interconnection disagreements among telecommunications public networks concession holders
The Plenary of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) in its XIV regular meeting approved a public consultation to the Draft Agreement by which the Number Portability Regulations are issued and the Fundamental Numbering Technical Plan and the Fundamental Signaling Technical Plan are modified, first published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on June 21st of 1996.
This public consultation makes enhances transparency and promotes the participation of the public in the processes to issue general provisions by the IFT; furthermore, the comments made in this consultation will reinforce the decision-making process of the IFT, which will include the comments and opinions of academics, members of the industry, experts, and the society at large on the document submitted to consultation, so that the resulting Draft Project is duly examined by the Plenary of the IFT for its eventual approval and subsequent publication.
With the issuing of the Portability Regulations the IFT will fully comply with the provisions of the
Transitory Thirty-Eighth Article of the issuing Decree of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, which sets forth that the obligation of this regulatory body is to issue, within the sixty business days following the effective date of such Law the necessary administrative rules to eliminate requirements which may delay or impede number portability.
Thus, the Regulations Draft Project which will be available to all interested parties for consultation on the website of the IFT for a period of 10 (ten) business days from its publication, establishes rules to ensure an effective portability within a period not exceeding 24 hours and promotes the formalities for the portability of phone numbers so this process can be made via electronic means, so that users freely and effectively exercise their right to choose the service provider of choice, keeping their phone number.
To have an appropriate implementation of number portability under the terms of the Regulations Draft Project, it is also necessary to modify the Fundamental Numbering Technical Plan and the Fundamental Signaling Technical Plan to incorporate the technical parameters required to have a successful implementation of the new applicable regulations.
The Plenary of the IFT also solved four interconnection disagreements among telecommunications public networks concession holders:
1) The interconnection fee that Megacable Comunicaciones de México, S.A. de C.V. shall pay to Radiomóvil Dipsa, S.A. de C.V. for switched termination services in mobile users under the arrangements “Calling Party Pays” will be $0.3214 pesos per minute, effective as from December 31st of 2012.
2) The interconnection fee that Cablevisión, S.A. de C.V., Bestphone S.A. de C.V. and Cablemás Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V. shall pay to Radiomóvil Dipsa, S.A. de C.V. for switched termination services in mobile users under the arrangements “Calling Party Pays”, as well as the fee that Operbes, S.A. de C.V. and Cablemás shall pay to Radiomóvil Dipsa for the same item under the arrangements “Calling Party Pays in Mexico” will be $0.3214 pesos per minute, from January 1st to December 31st of 2012.
Moreover, the fee that Radiomóvil Dipsa shall pay to Cablevisión, Bestphone and Cablemás for termination services in fixed telephone users will be $0.02432 pesos per minute, effective from January 1st to December 31st of 2012.
3) The interconnection fees that Avantel, S. de R.L. de C.V. and Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V. shall pay to Iusacell PCS, S.A. de C.V., Comunicaciones Celulares de Occidente, S.A. de C.V., Sistemas Telefónicos Portátiles Celulares, S.A. de C.V., SOS Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., Telecomunicaciones del Golfo, S.A. de C.V., Portatel del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. and Operadora Unefon S.A. de C.V., for switched termination services in mobile users under the arrangements “Calling Party Pays” and “Calling Party Pays in Mexico” will be the following:
- From January 1st to December 31st of 2012: $0.3214 pesos per minute
- From January 1st to December 31st of 2013: $0.3144 pesos per minute
4) The interconnection fee that Alestra S. de R.L. de C.V. shall pay to Comunicaciones Celulares de
Occidente, S.A. de C.V., Sistemas Telefónicos Portátiles Celulares, S.A. de C.V.,
Telecomunicaciones del Golfo, S.A. de C.V., Iusacell PCS, S.A. de C.V., Iusacell PCS de México, S.A de C.V. SOS Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., Portatel del Sureste, S.A. de C.V. and Operadora Unefon S.A. de C.V., for switched termination services in mobile users under the arrangements “Calling Party Pays” and “Calling Party Pays in Mexico” will be $0.3214 pesos per minute, from January 1st to December 31st of 2012.
