The IFT Plenary resolves to grant 49 concession titles and 14 permissions to commercialize public telecommunications services (Press Release 2/2014)
The IFT Plenary resolves to grant 49 concession titles and 14 permissions to commercialize public telecommunications services
- These are the first concession titles that the regulating body grants, exercising the powers conferred in the Decree of Constitutional Reform in Telecommunications matters
- Diverse requests addressed comprise part of the files that were in process on the integration date of the IFT
- With these actions, a strong start is taken to comply with the administrative files which resolution was pending
- The IFT Annual Calendar of Ordinary Sessions, and Work Schedule for year 2014 is approved
In extraordinary session, the Plenary of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT) resolved to grant 49 concession titles to install, operate and use public telecommunications networks in diverse localities of the country, which will allow the applicants to provide public telecommunications services that are technically possible, considering the infrastructure and transmission means that the given network has.
Diverse requests favorably resolved by the Plenary to obtain these concession titles were in process on the date of the IFT integration, and these comprised part of the files that the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) handed over to the Institute for processing and service.
As well, the Plenary approved the grant of 14 permits to establish, operate and use telecommunications market developer services.
The grant of the concessions and permissions will harness the availability of reasonable and varied commercial supplies in the market, in benefit of the populations in the diverse coverage areas where services will be provided.
With these actions, a strong start is taken to comply with the administrative files which resolution was pending.
Furthermore, the Plenary approved the Annual Calendar of Ordinary Sessions and the Annual Work Schedule for the year 2014, which will be published in the Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación, DOF) in the next days.
