MEXICO: NOM Certificate Verification at Customs Receives 90 day Extension for Certain Goods
Entirety reports on February 15, 2019, following our Regulatory Update regarding the published DOF from Oct 23/2018 related to agreements that included some NOM certificate being requested for verification at entry point. We got confirmation there is an extension of 90 more days to enter into force in regards to the item 5 and 5 TER- […]
MEXICO: DOF Announces New Regulation for Batteries and Primary Batteries Imported or Merchandised in the Mexican National Territory
Entirety reports on November 20, 2018, an official announcement by the DOF of Mexico regarding NOM-212-SCFI-2017 (Mexican Official Standard) establishing and defining features for batteries, technological classification by the electrochemical system, maximum permissible limits of cadmium and mercury and labeling. The NOM-212-SCFI-2017 is applicable to batteries and primary batteries imported or merchandised in the Mexican National Territory as […]
Mexico: IFT Issues the 2019 Annual Program for Use and Exploitation of Frequency Bands
On November 12, 2018, the Mexican Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) published on the Official Gazette of Federation its Annual Program Plan for 2019 with the purpose to determine the Frequency Bands that will be open for bidding or that may be directly assigned and integrated with services that will be provided through such frequencies of frequency bands, […]
MEXICO: NOM Certificates Will Now Be Requested for Verification at Customs
The Mexican governments’ Secretary of Commerce published in the Official Gazette, an updated Agreement through which the Ministry of Economy issues General Rules and Criteria regarding Foreign Trade. Some customs tariff classification were included to mandate that the Importers of the goods listed in this Agreement, must be attached to the import request, at the […]
MEXICO: IFT Completes 600 MHz Band Release Process
With this releasement process, Mexico becomes the first country in the world to complete this organizational policy, allowing the future use of these frequencies. More than 200 television channels operating in the 600 MHz bands were relocated. The reordering of this band opens the possibility of obtaining a second digital dividend in the country which […]
MEXICO: IFT Pushes Forward Release of the 600MHz Band
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) confirmed that it has successfully freed up Mexico City-based spectrum in the 692MHz-698MHz currently held by an operator, thus furthering its ambitions of freeing up the 614MHz to 698MHz (‘600MHz’) band for 5G use. The reorganization of the 600 MHz band opens the possibility of obtaining a second digital dividend […]
MEXICO: CCONNSE Answers to Comments for Draft PROY-NOM-221-SCFI-2017 (Part 1)
On July 25, 2018 the National Standardization Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Economy from Mexico (CCONNSE) published answers to comments regarding the Mexican standard PROY-NOM-221-SCFI-2017 draft from July 17, 2017, which spoke about specifications of mobile terminal equipment that can make use of the radioelectric spectrum or be connected to telecommunications networks Part 1. […]
MEXICO: IFT Publishes Technical Specification Draft for Mobile Terminal Equipment
On July 13, 2018, the Federal Institute of Telecommunications of Mexico (IFT), issued a draft of the Mexican official standard PROY-NOM-221/2-SCFI-2018 that established the Technical specifications for mobile terminal equipment operating in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 1700 MHz / 2100 MHz and / or 2500 MHz bands, or that are […]
MEXICO: IFT Releases 600 MHz Band as Mexico Becomes First Country to Release Frequency Band for 5G
On March 19, 2018, the Federal Institute of Telecommunications from Mexico (IFT) released an official communication announcing that the plenary of the authority has already approved the relocation of 48 digital television channels in the 600 MHz band, hence the country is already set for the liberalisation of spectrum in the 614 MHz to 698 […]
MEXICO: IFT Publishes Public Consultation IFT-011-2017
IFT has published the following consultations in order to gather comments from interested parties: 1. Public consult regarding the “Draft of the Technical Disposition IFT-011-2017: Technical specifications of the mobile terminal equipment using the radioelectric spectrum or connected to the telecommunication networks. Part II. Mobile terminal equipment operating in the bands 700 MHz, 800 MHz, […]