Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones

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.