America Movil loses appeals against dominant status

A Mexican federal court judge has dismissed appeals lodged by America Movil against the March 2014 decision by the telecoms regulator (IFT) declaring the company a dominant player. In the ruling handed down on 27 October, the judge of the second district court specializing in telecommunications, Silvia Fernandez Ceron, deemed the measures imposed by the IFT to be valid, reasonable and proportionate. “The Complainant failed to invalidate the legality of the authority’s decision to consider it part of a dominant economic group in the telecommunications sector, and impose on it the measures it considered pertinent,” declared the judge in her ruling.

America Movil was declared a dominant player in the telecoms sector last year, leading to a series of stricter rules. In July the IFT ordered Telmex (America Movil) to open up the last mile of its network to rival operators, as part of the measures put in place to introduce greater competition in the local telecommunications market.