Mexico govt rejects Slim's request to launch pay-TV service

News Broadband Mexico 28 MEI 2011
Mexico govt rejects Slim's request to launch pay-TV service
Mexico's government has rejected Telmex's request of expanding its license to include provision of pay-TV services. Telmex has been fighting a lengthy battle with regulators for the right to offer TV services, Reuters reports. The Mexican Communications and Transport Ministry said that Telmex had failed to meet the necessary requirements to enter the TV market. However, it added the company could still try again in future. The ministry said Telmex had not satisfied the demands of the Convergence Accord, a five-year-old decree that foresaw telephone services being efficient and operating at "non-discriminatory rates" before the firm got the nod for TV.

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