Telmex not ask permission to transmit television – Forbes Mexico

Telmex, a company of Carlos Slim, has not yet filed with the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) a request to change its license, a decision that you can come to play pay television in the Mexican market.

“We have met all the topics requested in the preponderance,” said Mexican businessman Hector Slim Seade at the end of celebration of the third anniversary of the telecoms reform. transformed sector in Mexico

“One TV is a television broadcast, but a platform with internet access,” said the head of one of the largest fixed telephony companies in the country.

in May 2014, the IFT established 18 months for the leading agent in telecommunications, ie, America Movil and its subsidiaries Telmex and Telcel, could apply for permission to . offer TV

That decision was a fundamental part of the reform in telecommunications and broadcasting, adopted in 2013, to promote competition in fixed telephony, internet and mobile phones

. – Already formally they requested the change of title Telmex’s concession? asked Forbes Mexico Slim Seade.

-still we have not presented.

Is there interest in submitting it for participate in the triple play?

as was said today, always there was much talk of competition and there is already a lot of competition and I hope to continue giving in all sectors.

transmissions Uno TV, a television channel online Mexican millionaire, does not violate the concession of Telmex, reported the IFT on Friday.

“Having an internet portal does not mean the provision of a service television regulated by law and therefore not violated the provisions of condition 1.9 of the concession, “said Gabriel Contreras, president of the IFT.

Contreras said that investigation of a possible violation to the title began from the creation of the IFT.

he added that until now America Movil has not requested or ordered before the IFT modify its license and thus provide television services pay, as Slim want company.

Slim Seade concluded that they are not happy with the determination communicated by the IFT, because the channel on which news is transmitted is a “seeker”.