OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico Contents Executive summary: An overall assessment OECD Review of Chapter 1. The telecommunication sector in Mexico • The national context for telecommunications policies Telecommunication Policy • Telecommunication market participants, market performance and the regulatory regime • Development of competition and Regulation in Mexico 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 OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico • 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 (2005-10) Annex B. Ofcom vs. Cofetel: Competencies in telecommunications and spectrum policy Annex C. 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FOREWORD – 3 Foreword This study was carried out by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) under the auspices of the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP Committee). It was requested by the Government of Mexico, at the behest of the Federal Telecommunications Commission (Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones, COFETEL), through the Mexican Ministry of Transport and Communications (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT), both being in charge of representing Mexico at the ICCP Committee. The OECD review of telecommunication policy and regulation draws on responses by the Mexican authorities to a questionnaire and on the results of an extensive series of interviews with major communication stakeholders during a fact-finding mission in Mexico. The report was peer reviewed by the ICCP Committee on 27 October 2011, with Dr. Mónica Ariño (Ofcom, United Kingdom) and Mr. François Lions (Arcep, France) as the lead peer reviewers. It was finalised in early November 2011 and reflects developments up to that time. The review was drafted by Mr. Dimitri Ypsilanti, Head of the Information, Communications and Consumer Policy Division (ICCP Division) within DSTI, and Mr. Agustín Díaz-Pinés, economist at the ICCP division, with the assistance of Professor Patrick Xavier, Curtin Business School, and contributions from Professor Martin Cave, London School of Economics, and Mr. Tony Shortall, Director, Telage. The review was made possible by the support from the SCT and Cofetel. The OECD Secretariat wishes to thank, in particular, Minister Dionisio Pérez-Jácome Friscione, Minister of Transport and Communications and Undersecretary Héctor Olavarría Tapia, Undersecretary for Telecommunications in the SCT, and President Mony de Swaan Adati, President of Cofetel and their staff for organising the mission and interviews and providing additional factual information throughout the review process. The OECD also wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Ambassador Agustín García-López Loaeza and Minister Sergio Lozoya Granier, from the OECD Mexican Delegation for their support in the review process. OECD REVIEW OF TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY AND REGULATION IN MEXICO – © OECD 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS – 5 Table of contents Executive summary: An overall assessment............................................................................................ 9 Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 9 Shortcomings and challenges................................................................................................................ 11 Chapter 1. The telecommunication sector in Mexico........................................................................... 15 1.1. Introduction.................................................................................................................................... 16 1.2. The national context for telecommunications policies................................................................... 17 1.3. Telecommunication market participants, market performance and the regulatory regime............18 1.4. Development of competition.......................................................................................................... 25 Notes ..................................................................................................................................................... 38 References............................................................................................................................................. 39 Chapter 2. Regulatory structures and their reform............................................................................. 41 2.1. Regulatory institutions................................................................................................................... 44 2.2. The regulatory regime.................................................................................................................... 50 2.3. Regulations and related policy instruments in the telecommunication sector ...............................58 2.4. Regulation of interconnection........................................................................................................ 65 2.5. Price regulation.............................................................................................................................. 75 2.6. Competition policy ........................................................................................................................ 79 2.7. Convergence in communication markets.......................................................................................82 2.8. Next generation access................................................................................................................... 88 2.9. Quality of service........................................................................................................................... 92 2.10. Resource issues (spectrum, infrastructure sharing)...................................................................... 94 2.11. Universal service........................................................................................................................ 102 2.12. International aspects................................................................................................................... 104 2.13. Consumer protection and empowerment ................................................................................... 106 2.14. Streamlining regulation and application of competition principles........................................... 108 Notes ..................................................................................................................................................