Follow-up report: OECD Telecommunication and Broadcasting Review of Mexico 2017
Four years after Mexico overhauled its telecommunication and broadcasting sectors with a major legal and regulatory reform, a new OECD review published in August 2017 assesses the impact on communication markets, businesses and households. 

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Pages: 140 Published: 30 January 2012 ISBN 978-92-64-060104  Available in English and Spanish

Download the report: English | Spanish    Order the paperback    Corrigendum to English paperback edition   OECD countries have recognised the increasing role played by the telecommunications sector as a means of improving productivity and economic growth while enabling governments to improve provision of public services. Mexico, with the lowest GDP per capita in the OECD, a high inequality of income distribution, and a relatively high rural population, needs the socio-economic boost provided by greater access to more efficient communication services, in particular high speed broadband.   This report reviews telecommunications policy and regulations in Mexico and puts forward a number of recommendations to achieve efficiency in telecommunication markets.

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Table of contents

 

Executive summary: An overall assessment
   

Chapter 1. The telecommunication sector in Mexico

• The national context for telecommunications policies
• Telecommunication market participants, market performance and the regulatory regime
• Development of competition

Chapter 2. Regulatory structures and their reform

• Regulatory institutions
• The regulatory regime
• Regulations and related policy instruments in the telecommunication sector
• Regulation of interconnection
• Price regulation
• Competition policy
• Convergence in communication markets
• Next generation access
• Quality of service
• Resource issues (spectrum, infrastructure sharing)
• Universal service
• International aspects
• Consumer protection and empowerment
• Streamlining regulation and application of competition principles

Chapter 3. Conclusions and recommendations
 

Annex A. Regulatory decisions and the judicial process (2005-2010)
 

Annex B. Ofcom vs. Cofetel: Competencies in telecommunications and spectrum policy
 

Annex C. Estimation of loss in consumer surplus resulting from excessive pricing