The country's wireless Internet providers are asking the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) (Telecom regulator) to tighten the fines against small providers that are not regularized and mess up the frequency used for wireless services. Only in Izamal, a municipality in the State of Yucatan, there are 9 illegal providers that supply service within a radius of 2 kilometers.
Ángel Patron, founder of Uroboros Networks, a Yucatan ISP, confided to Convergencialatina that the service requests skyrocketed after the mandatory confinement caused by Covid-19 and assures that the lack of decision to attack illegal providers who contaminate the spectrum. It forces them to invest in fiber, but due to the geography of the remote towns, it is only possible to arrive with hybrid networks.
In the same sense, Daniel Sánchez Santos, director of Telecomunicaciones Zegache, also denounces the lack of support from the regulator to clean up saturated frequencies and the absence of the Government in primary schools in southern Oaxaca, where it donates the service to connect schools. Sánchez Santos estimates that there are some 30 illegal ISPs in his area.