Millions of Cell Phones about to be shut off in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (CNNExpansión.com) – Only two days to complete the registration deadline for mobile lines (RENAUT) still need just under 30 million users register, the risk is that by law will be disconnected from next April 11.

The Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel) states on its website that have registered 54.2 million of the 83.5 million lines that exist in the country, ie 65%, about 1 million of them were given a single high day.

The cancellation of this number of lines in Mexico could lead to a level of penetration of mobile services similar to what existed in 2005 or to which Haiti is now, according to Ernesto Piedras, Director General of The Competitive Intelligence Unit (CIU).

The analyst believes that the measure will have a social impact specifically on those groups that do not have an advanced digital culture, such as the elderly and rural populations.

The SIC estimates, about 9.6 million lines have not been registered belong to people over 60 years.

“All operators, including Telcel, requested the authorities and legislators to postpone the registration deadline because there is a significant base of users to register and when the deadline will no longer be how to make it to its suspension lines without the right to recovery, which we think is going right up against the spirit of the initiative is to have a record of mobile phone users, “said Guillermo Ferrer, director of Institutional Relations of America Movil to CNNExpansión.com.

The remaining players were unavailable to give his position on this issue.

The cancellation of the mobile lines will result in “users to a civil penalty for their irresponsibility. While companies with a late penalty for his involvement in the process,” said Rogelio Bustamante, telecommunications specialist Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Mexico City.

On Wednesday the Committee on Communications and Transportation of the Senate rejected an extension to the registration on the National Register of Mobile users which expires this April 10, so that the lines have not been discharged will be void.

Which continues to charge for the canceled lines of post-payment will lead to conflicts between the user and the operator are difficult to resolve an instance as the Federal (CJF) usually takes care of it, according to the professor of Tec de Monterrey.

“The most affected will be about 30 million Mexicans who have not yet registered, many of which the cell is the only means of communication they have, in other cases is vital to perform their daily activities. Additionally we concerned about the thousands of users without CURP to register, “says the director of America Movil.

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