During the six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the mexican population with access to a cellularaccording to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
According to experts, this was due to two factors: increase in purchasing power due to the increase in the minimum wage promoted by the president and social programs, which was combined with a largest offer of Chinese brands in the country such as Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei and Honoramong others.
“User rationality drove up their average spending, focused on the acquisition of equipment with greater technological capabilities, mostly mid-range, which is consolidated as the most preferred in the country,” said the analysis firm The CIU.
Data from the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval), The purchasing power of the average real labor income per capita in the second quarter of 2024 was 3,350.84 pesosalmost double what was reported in the fourth quarter of 2018, when it was 1,717.90.
This market was captured mainly by America Movil with your brand Telcelsignature that belongs to the businessman Carlos Slimwell also From 2018 to June 2024, its market share grew from 71.9 percent to 74.14 percent.
This meant that the rest of the competitors Slim They would also be pressured. six years ago AT&T had 14.11 percent of the market, while Telephone with 11.7 percent; currently its percentages are lower, since Their ranges oscillate between 5 and 6 percentwith more than 21 million mobile lines.
“There has been a big issue of concentration for many years (…) to the extent that we have a more competitive market, we are going to have many more benefits,” he told MILLENNIUM Daniel Ríos, assistant vice president of External Affairs at AT&T.
Only 120 cities with 5G
One of the pending things for the next administration is the technology deployment 5Gsince currently only 120 cities in the country have this connection.
Figures from The CIU indicate that in the country 13 million mobile lines are associated only with cell phones capable of using the network 5Gbut they also have a commercial plan that enables them to take advantage of it.
Which implies that an adoption of 5G 9.1 percent of the total mobile lines in the country.
Expensive spectrum
Another pending point left by the outgoing administration is the extra cost of the radio spectrum in the country.
Under Obrador’s mandate there were no intentions to improve or reform tax issues on the matter.
The CIU pointed out that the spectrum in Mexico registers a premium that exceeds 60 percent the benchmark international in all occupied bands, when considering the total operating cost.
For this reason, different operators have had to return the network blocks they have acquired due to the unsustainable price becoming, further limiting the ability of new operators to compete.
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