US EditionMexico: uncertainty ahead for businesses as constitutional amendments transfer regulatory powers to government entities
- Constitutional amendments in Mexico will dissolve the autonomous competition authority COFECE and telecommunications regulator IFT.
- The amendments enacted last year eliminated most autonomous bodies, transferring their functions to government entities.
- These regulators currently enforce antitrust law using tools like dawn raids and leniency programs to address cartel behavior.
- Congress significantly reduced the budgets for both agencies in early 2025, impacting staffing and operational scope.
- Dissolving the agencies creates uncertainty regarding the future regulatory framework and requires businesses to monitor changes closely.
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In view of the imminent disappearance of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), workers of the autonomous body demanded that they be liquidated and that they be guaranteed payment of various benefits, such as those of postgraduate studies that are in progress. In a statement, they issued a nine-point petition document detailing the rights they request be safeguarded during the process of extinction and transfer to the Agency for Digital…
A new front in the political arena has opened up in Mexico. The project to reform the Telecommunications Law gives the Executive the power to regulate and manage the radio spectrum, the large highway on which broadcasting, the Internet and telephony depend. For the opposition, the return to a government leadership of the spectrum, after the disappearance of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), the independent body that fulfilled this …
Cd. of Mexico.- The approximately 1,200 employees of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) fear about their future employment, after the approval, which is being carried out in fast track, of the Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting in the Legislative Power. The employees, who since January 1, 2025 no longer have access to their benefits, held a meeting during today's day at the Institute's facilities, located in Mexico City.
The imminent approval “fast track” of the telecom bill initiative keeps in the uncertainty a thousand 238 workers of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), who describe as alarming the “lack of legal technique” of the document that unjustifiably excludes any provision on the destination of human resources of the regulatory body. “The transitional articles Octavo, Noveno and Tenth grant the IFT obligations after its dissolution, such as …
The executive branch approved the results of the auction of frequencies for fifth generation networks (5G).The auction was carried out by the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (Sutel) at the end of January before and, in it, Claro and Liberty obtained the frequencies for national services.In addition, five operators (Coopeguanacaste, Coopelesca, Coopealfaroruiz, Coopesantos and Ring Centrales) obtained the frequencies at the regional level.…
The disappearance of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) did not come as a surprise thunder, but as a meticulously orchestrated move from Palacio Nacional. The Senate, ... La entrada What is the New Telecommunications Law going on in Mexico? Senate endorses agency with power to block platforms and regulate media aparece primero en LJA Aguascalientes.
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