The Most Dangerous Telecommunications Law

The Constitutional Reform on Organic Simplification published on December 20, 2024, extinguished the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) without resolving the riddle about the model of a new regulatory body. In this context, on April 23, 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum presented a bill on telecommunications and broadcasting that proposed absorbing all the powers of the IFT by the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications …

Although there are some improvements for the public, community and indigenous media in Mexico, the opinion of the Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting still has a pending broadcasting debt. Historically, these media have faced operational challenges, financial sustainability and independence, which complicate their mission of serving the public interest and giving space to plurality of ideas, ideological balance and freedom of expression.

The Federal Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting is not a mere legislative proposal with "new" reforms, it is a fundamental part of the backbone of the democratic life and development of the country, said Sonia Venegas Álvarez, director of the Faculty of Law of UNAM. "It represents a human right and an indispensable tool for the exercise of communication for society," he said. Over time, he said, significant progress was demonstrated in th…

After recognizing “the good news” that the announcement of the federal government means that there will be a collegial body within the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT), Aleida Calleja Gutiérrez, representative of Observacom, said that now the challenge is to ensure its independence so that there is no undue interference, and it has technical and citizen counterweights. By participating in the fourth day of the Conversa…

In the fourth simulation of the Telecommunications reform, specialists and legislators warned about the risks of censorship and the concentration of power in the Digital Transformation Agency. They demanded respect for freedom of expression and denounced that the initiative would allow blocking platforms and suspend transmissions without control. A danger for Mexico! The opposition warned that it calls it Fourth Transformation seeks to control d…

At the morning conference on Wednesday, May 13, President Claudia Sheinbaum, accompanied by the head of the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency, José Peña Merino, said that articles 109 (on blocking of digital platforms), 201 and 202 (on broadcasting of foreign content) of the Law on Telecommunications and Broadcasting would be deleted.