Senate Would Vote Telecom Law in July; Recognizes Too Much Power in ATDT

Expert warns that the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT) concentrates excessive power, key institutional gaps. “It faces conflicts of competence and governance that can result in duplicate bureaucracy, cost overruns and delays in strategic projects.” Staff/RG The newly created Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT) – driven by Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency – aims to unify government technology and a…

The telecommunications and broadcasting sector would have its new policy in July of this year. The new reservations that will constitute the legal framework of both industries would be approved that month by the Senate of the Republic, after holding five talks with entrepreneurs, academics and specialists, said Javier Corral, president of the Senate Justice Committee. The opinion, proposed by the Executive and approved by Deputies, was qualified…

After concluding the five talks on the bill on telecommunications and broadcasting in which 89 speakers were heard, the United Committees of the Senate of the Republic will enter a stage to draft and formulate the reservation that will be presented in the coming weeks, said Senator Javier Corral. The legislator, who served as coordinator of these exercises, explained that once this happens, the consensus that exists for a special session to be c…

The Senate of the Republic would approve in July the new legal framework applicable to telecommunications and broadcasting companies active in Mexico, this after the Upper House ended the stage of talks that opened a dialogue between legislators and industry in these two sectors to define a modern legislation that takes advantage of opportunities such as nearshoring, but also responds to historical demands on the high prices of the radio spectru…

Recently, in the Senate of the Republic a series of meetings called “conversatory” were held to analyze the controversial Telecommunications Law by President Sheinbaum, an initiative that has been described by its critics as a censorship law. However, these meetings, which promised an open and plural dialogue, ended up being, in the opinion of many, a pure farce. Lack of key participation and disdain towards plurality From the beginning, it beca…

The Senate of the Republic concluded on Thursday the five talks of the Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting, which seek to modify some aspects of the presidential initiative, such as the Digital Transformation Agency, as well as shake the nickname “Censorship Law” to approve the new legal framework in an extraordinary period in June.In the last of the talks specialists, businessmen and senators of opposition insisted on the risks of censor…