On July 16, 2025, Mexico enacted a new Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, effective July 17, 2025. This landmark reform dissolves the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) and creates a two-tier regulatory model to modernize the country’s telecom framework.
📌 New Structure:
- ATDT (Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones): Focused on policy-making, digital inclusion, and infrastructure planning.
- CRT (Comisión Reguladora de Telecomunicaciones): Technical regulator under ATDT, responsible for spectrum management, licensing, type approvals, concessions, interconnection rules, and enforcement.
📌 Transition & Procedures:
- The IFT will operate temporarily until the CRT Plenary is established, after which it will be fully dissolved.
- Ongoing applications will be transferred to CRT without cancellation.
- Existing certificates remain valid until expiration.
- The IFT Seal requirement (originally set for July 1, 2025) is postponed to July 1, 2027, with new marking rules to be defined by CRT.
📌 Additional Reform:
Competition and antitrust oversight will now fall under the newly created National Antimonopoly Commission (CNA).
👉 For more information, contact TrustCert.
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