Bidding 21

National
CFC says that it puts "the alike conditions " on the market
Bidding 21
By: Carlos Damián November 16, 2010
Accepts Molinar Horcasitas a "discount" to Televisa - Nextel
México. – The president of the Federal Competition Commission (CFC), Eduardo Perez Motta, justified the delivery of grant titles of the spectrum radio-electric to Televisa and Nextel (T-N), in the bidding 21, because is an instrument that "puts the same conditions "on the market of the cellular telephony. Upon appearing before the communications commission of the Deputies Chamber, the official recognized that the telecommunications sector in Mexico presents inefficiencies that reduce the competitiveness of the economy, and "the mobile telephony is staunch reflex of the lack of competition".

One of the fundamental elements of the problem and of the solution, "is the tenure of the spectrum, essential input and scarce resource", stated him. He said that the bidding 21 balanced "the game field and opens the door to greater competition". The intention is take advantage the application of all the services (telephony, image and nets) through an alone channel. Asserted him that there was the urgency of opening to the foreign investment the telephony fixes as happens with the mobiles.

Accept the federal government a discount to Televises - Nextel
The executive of the Communications and Transportation secretariat (SCT) –federal department- minister Juan Molinar Horcasitas (JMH), recognized yesterday (October 13, 10) that in the bidding of the band of 1.9 Megahertz was made a discount of 41.4 percent - 42%- to Televisa and Nextel so that both companies will pay 338.33 million of dollars less than Telefonica and Telcel in the first payment for the use of the spectrum radio-electric.

This association T-N paid 12 million of dollars against 333.33 million of the others companies that competed, and this represents "a huge difference of 96 percent between one and other payment and is said 'this is an easy job’, the figure can be misleading". Because he expressed are not taken into account the payments by a thousand 133.33 million must make T-N during the term of the grant neither the investment by a thousand 200 million American dollars of both companies must accomplish to mount their net. In their sums, questioned by the legislators of the PAN, Molinar asserted that the cost for the companies by the development of the spectrum radio-electric will be of two thousand 333.33 million.

The official also recognized that the bidding conditions were configured to open to them the door to T-N in order to "to even the competition" and to endow them of a segment that for the most part, they had Telcel and Telephonic. Furthermore he reproached, in 1997 when was granted a discount of 44 percent to Telephonic as new competitor, nobody objected the reduction. This time, exposed “was not given" the grant, was paid the same as in that year. The deputed Teresa Reyes questioned that the SCT did not preserve the interest of the state upon granting a bidding 21 by a payment reduced with such of covering a process to the measure of the elected candidate a priori.

The deputy Javier Corral Jurado of the PAN supported that not it is considered the opinion of a “spiteful legislator", as Molinar Horcasitas was referred to him, but of technical personnel, ex officials and ex Ministers. Detailed the represent at the PAN, "With this decision is being giving a lethal blow to the state to right and to the same State. The dilemma is moral, it is not technical neither of numbers, but of the simulation of a maneuver legal, the "window of the opportunity" legal that was opened to deliver the grant title. The offensive lie or the truth". Emphasized him.

To the close of the discussion with the deputy of the PAN, Molinar answered: "What am I done it? We earned: a benefit for the Mexican market, for the consumer and industry, and the satisfaction of making a good public policy".

Contempt to the state to right
Salinas Group will present this Friday (October 15, 10) the penal accusation against Juan Molinar Horcasitas, so that is investigated if incurred in contempt upon delivering the title of the bidding 21 in spite of the existence of a judicial order in opposite sense, advanced the attorney Salvador Rocha Díaz. He assured that in short Iusacell will inform in the Mexican stock exchange Values (BMV) and the commission of the Market of United States Values that the bidding 21 is questioned in 72 legal resources, therefore the investments of Nextel are in risk in spite in fact that JMH assert the contrary.

Salvador Rocha Diaz (SRD) refuted the accusations of Nextel since continues in foot the provisional suspension granted by the court in Toluca. SRD indicated that all citizen has right to make use of the law to be defended of abuses of the authority, "as is the delivery of a public property to a consortium that it was benefitted from the design of the bases and from the limits duty to the spectrum accumulation". Assured him that his representative will make use of all the legal resources against the development of the spectrum radio-electric of 30 MHz, and against the responsible of the federal government bound to the favors payment to the private companies or that those companies correspond to those favors of the federal administration: Juan Molinar Horcasitas; Mony de Swan and of the commissioner Gonzalo Martinez Pous. (La Jornada, Economía, p. 28, October 14, 2010)