A plenary session of Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has approved a new set of guidelines requiring operators to ensure “non-discrimination of internet traffic, as well as the quality, capacity and speed of the service contracted by the user”. The newly-approved guidelines for net neutrality must be adopted by the country’s ISPs within 60 days of their publication in Mexico’s Official Gazette, meaning operators will in theory be prevented from reducing the download speed of streaming platforms, social networks and search engines starting from 03 September.
However, according to a report in local daily El Sol, digital rights defence bodies such as R3D will seek to challenge parts of the guidelines, above all those that appear to permit operators to discriminate between applications, content and services. The guidelines including provisions allowing mobile operators to include “sponsored access” to data as part of the plan or package contracted by the user, and to implement traffic management and network administration policies for “technical reasons”, said the report.
