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regulator of telecommunications in Mexico was endorsed today free retransmission of broadcast television Televisa 2 and 5, and 7 and 13 TV Azteca through the restricted systems.

counselors Federal Telecommunications Institute (Ifetel) approved the guidelines to be followed by pay-TV operators to relay broadcast television with more coverage, service known as “must carry, must offer” without prior authorization.

other broadcast channels in Mexico City, 4 and 9 may not be broadcast on pay systems and the company that retransmit their signals should lower them once they are published in the Official Journal of guidelines approved.

Ifetel The full guidelines adopted after the Supreme Court reiterated the powers of the body after accepting a constitutional dispute submitted on this issue by the government.

Last week, President Enrique Peña Nieto filed a constitutional challenge to the Court upheld the authority of Ifetel to decide on the “must carry, must offer”.

also Ifetel commissioners reported that instructions were to investigate the scope of the contracts signed between Telmex and Dish Mexico, after the disclosure of information in the sense that such agreements violate the prohibition Telmex to offer service television.

Ifetel president, Gabriel Contreras, said the regulatory body has the authority to act and impose sanctions and measures that are required, and noted that it will review whether companies comply with the law and with their concession agreements.

Commissioners indicated that in the archives of the Institute are not complete documents on contracts between Telmex and Dish.

Telmex

again rejected in a statement today that the partnership with Dish assume control of the television and said that contracts were awarded to the competition authority, determined that did not involve any concentration.

assured that neither Telmex nor its “officers or shareholders directly or indirectly involved in the capital of Dish Mexico, not part of its shareholders or its board of directors nor officers, employees or agents of Dish Mexico “.

however, reiterated that the relevant authority authorizes it might participate in the future in a joint venture with Dish.

“Telmex reiterates its full opening for this trade agreement is further revised by the competent authorities,” the company said.

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