Mexican regulator IFT was initially anticipating to award 5G spectrum this month
The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has introduced the cancellation of its deliberate 5G spectrum public sale, initially scheduled for this month.
In an announcement, the IFT mentioned it had acquired a proper request on January 2 from the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Company, the federal entity overseeing Mexico’s telecoms and broadcasting insurance policies, to halt the public sale course of to award extra frequencies for cellular providers.
The company defined that the cancellation was vital resulting from a scarcity of adequate assets to hold out the tender underneath the phrases beforehand established by the IFT.
The choice can also be linked to the deliberate dissolution of the IFT, which is anticipated to happen earlier than the tender course of concludes within the first quarter of 2026. This case would have required a brand new regulatory physique to imagine duty for the public sale, including complexity to the method, the regulator mentioned.
The company additionally emphasised that the transfer to cancel the spectrum public sale goals to keep away from potential problems and uncertainties that would come up throughout the transition interval.
The IFT-12 tender was anticipated to allocate 2,223 blocks of radio spectrum throughout a number of frequency bands, together with the 600MHz band, the L-band, the 800MHz band, the AWS band, the PCS band and the two.5GHz band.
Mexican operators AT&T Mexico and Telcel, owned by America Movil have already deployed 5G infrastructure throughout Mexico. Telcel initially launched its industrial 5G community in February 2022 in 18 of Mexico’s largest cities, utilizing infrastructure from Ericsson and Huawei.
AT&T Mexico is providing its 5G providers in varied cities throughout the nation. The operator’s 5G providers are energetic in Mexico Metropolis, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, Mazatlan, Ciudad Obregon, Navojoa, Guasave, Ensenada, Puerto Penasco Guamuchil, Hemosillo, Culiacan, Saltillo, Torreon and Morelia, amongst different cities.
Movistar is utilizing AT&T’s community infrastructure for the availability of 5G in Mexico.