Movistar has obtained a concession to operate a public telecommunications network nationwide, to offer pay television and satellite data services.

This came as part of the decision of the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) to deal with 18 issues in telecommunications. It awarded 10 grants of public telecommunications networks, 8 to provide pay television services to benefit communities in the states of Baja California, Chiapas, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Querétaro and Veracruz, and one more satellite data services at national level and an additional allowance with basic telephony services and the provision of long distance capacity to cover people in Aguascalientes, Jalisco and Guanajuato.

Moreover, modified 7 concession titles, among which are authorizations to provide additional services in towns of the State of Mexico, Queretaro and Tamaulipas. Lastly, awarded frequency bands for official use to the National Institute of Historical Studies of Revolutions in Mexico, a body within the Ministry of Education.

Movistar is moving in the rigth direction, unstoppable.