CIU: Mexican telcos need a helping hand
Although Mexican telecommunications operators are cooperating with the federal government in projects aimed at providing basic communications services during the COVID-19 crisis, the administration has not relaxed regulations.
A temporary suspension of taxes, for example, would be ideal to ensure operators keep on providing adequate services and sustain themselves economically, according to The Competitive Intelligence Unit’s (CIU) CEO Ernesto Piedras.
In an article published by the consulting firm on Thursday, Piedras said the current 3% tax on telecom services – known as IEPS – that operators have to pay jeopardizes users and does not help deal with the saturation of networks that the contingency is creating.
He cited measures that countries such as the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Peru and Colombia have adopted to cope with the increasing demand for services telcos are experiencing.
For example, the US and Ireland provided service operators with temporary licenses to exploit more frequencies, Australia and Peru suspended permits for spectrum rights, Colombia and India extended the period for operators to fulfill their obligations and Canada and Spain created a special fund for radio and television service providers.
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In Mexico, an official plan to relieve operators has not been presented.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has said that his focus is on low-income citizens and not companies.
Yet, telecom regulator IFT has said it would release more spectrum if operators considered it necessary and it has also postponed several pending regulatory resolutions this year, along with spectrum auctions.
Also, Mexico’s biggest operators, IFT members and other industry experts met on March 18 to put together a portfolio of projects aimed at helping the federal government implement a contingency plan to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Among the measures already in force are a massive text-message alert system for COVID-19 topics and zero-rating for government websites.
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